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Table 3 Heidelberger and Welch Stationarity and half-width tests for the Bayesian chains used in the diagnosis of MCMC

From: Bayesian negative binomial logit hurdle and zero-inflated model for characterizing smoking intensity

Count model coefficients (NBLH)

Count model coefficients (ZINB)

Parameters

Stationarity Test

P-Value

Half-width test

Parameters

Stationarity Test

P-Value

Half-width test

C

C

\(\varnothing \)

Passed

0.517

Passed

\(\varnothing \)

Passed

0.24

Passed

\({\beta }_{0}\)

Passed

0.456

Passed

\({\beta }_{0}\)

Passed

0.574

Passed

\({\beta }_{1}\)

Passed

0.322

Passed

\({\beta }_{1}\)

Passed

0.38

Passed

\({\beta }_{2}\)

Passed

0.263

Passed

\({\beta }_{2}\)

Passed

0.425

Passed

\({\beta }_{3}\)

Passed

0.188

Passed

\({\beta }_{3}\)

Passed

0.354

Passed

\({\beta }_{4}\)

Passed

0.289

Passed

\({\beta }_{4}\)

Passed

0.371

Passed

\({\beta }_{5}\)

Passed

0.515

Passed

\({\beta }_{5}\)

Passed

0.226

Passed

\({\beta }_{6}\)

Passed

0.677

Passed

\({\beta }_{6}\)

Passed

0.353

Passed

\({\beta }_{7}\)

Passed

0.462

Passed

\({\beta }_{7}\)

Passed

0.645

Passed

\({\beta }_{8}\)

Passed

0.51

Passed

\({\beta }_{8}\)

Passed

0.71

Passed

\({\beta }_{9}\)

Passed

0.39

Passed

\({\beta }_{9}\)

Passed

0.586

Passed

\({\beta }_{10}\)

Passed

0.397

Passed

\({\beta }_{10}\)

Passed

0.286

Passed

\({\beta }_{11}\)

Passed

0.635

Passed

\({\beta }_{11}\)

Passed

0.386

Passed

\({\beta }_{12}\)

Passed

0.516

Passed

\({\beta }_{12}\)

Passed

0.897

Passed

\({\beta }_{13}\)

Passed

0.371

Passed

\({\beta }_{13}\)

Passed

0.582

Passed

\({\beta }_{14}\)

Passed

0.172

Passed

\({\beta }_{14}\)

Passed

0.375

Passed

Zero hurdle model coefficients (binomial with logit link)

Zero-inflation model coefficients

\({\gamma }_{0}\)

Passed

0.398

Passed

\({\gamma }_{0}\)

Passed

0.447

Passed

\({\gamma }_{1}\)

Passed

0.272

Passed

\({\gamma }_{1}\)

Passed

0.595

Passed

\({\gamma }_{2}\)

Passed

0.281

Passed

\({\gamma }_{2}\)

Passed

0.692

Passed

\({\gamma }_{3}\)

Passed

0.094

Passed

\({\gamma }_{3}\)

Passed

0.258

Passed

\({\gamma }_{4}\)

Passed

0.151

Passed

\({\gamma }_{4}\)

Passed

0.292

Passed

\({\gamma }_{5}\)

Passed

0.294

Passed

\({\gamma }_{5}\)

Passed

0.524

Passed

\({\gamma }_{6}\)

Passed

0.3

Passed

\({\gamma }_{6}\)

Passed

0.494

Passed

\({\gamma }_{7}\)

Passed

0.489

Passed

\({\gamma }_{7}\)

Passed

0.464

Passed

\({\gamma }_{8}\)

Passed

0.365

Passed

\({\gamma }_{8}\)

Passed

0.427

Passed

\({\gamma }_{9}\)

Passed

0.218

Passed

\({\gamma }_{9}\)

Passed

0.299

Passed

\({\gamma }_{10}\)

Passed

0.377

Passed

\({\gamma }_{10}\)

Passed

0.329

Passed

\({\gamma }_{11}\)

Passed

0.378

Passed

\({\gamma }_{11}\)

Passed

0.446

Passed

\({\gamma }_{12}\)

Passed

0.546

Passed

\({\gamma }_{12}\)

Passed

0.797

Passed

\({\gamma }_{13}\)

Passed

0.658

Passed

\({\gamma }_{13}\)

Passed

0.387

Passed

\({\gamma }_{14}\)

Passed

0.659

Passed

\({\gamma }_{14}\)

Passed

0.398

Passed

  1. C = \(\frac{\text{C}1+\text{C}2+\text{C}3}{3}\), \(\text{C}1\)= chain one, C2 = chain two, C3 = chain three