Variable

Description

Values used in this article

sig

Std dev of mixture normal densities

1

mcn

Sample size of MCMC chains

52,000

sca

Scale parameter for MCMC random walk

1.2

dis

Burn-in for MCMC draws

2000

A

Vector to compare two group means

(−1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0)

A1

Vector specifying linear transform of group means

(0, 0, 1, −0.5, −0.5, 0)