Comparison of Prior Setting Methods for Multilevel Model Effect Estimation Based on Small Sample Imbalanced Nested Data in Bayesian Framework

Table 5

Summary table of applicable conditions for a prior setting for the SSIND.

Condition combination	ICC = 0.05			ICC = 0.10			ICC = 0.15
	c = 8	c = 12	c = 16	c = 8	c = 12	c = 16	c = 8	c = 12	c = 16
m = 5	G	U	U	G	G	U	G	G	G
m = 10	G	U	U	G	G	U	G	G	U
m = 15	G	U	U	U	G	U	G	G	G
m = 20	U	U	U	G	U	U	G	G	G

Note. “G” means that gamma performs better, and “U” means that uniform performs better.