CSU Hayward

Statistics Department

Table 3: Four Prior Distributions for Prevalence

 
Description
 
a, b
Mode
(a-1)/(a+b-2)
Percentiles
   2.5%97.5%
(a) Perhaps most
realistic
2, 50  2% 0.45% 10.45%
(b) Somewhat more  
pessimistic
2, 20  5%  1.17%23.82%
(c) Uniform,
flat
1, 1 none  2.50%97.50%
(d) Questionable
choice
7, 5 60% 39.97%88.19%