A summary.mcmc object of the type produced by the coda package,
containing the requisite posterior summary information on the variables
dd, the contrasts of the treatment effect parameters.
Thrombo.post.summaryA summary.mcmc object. The key components for our use are:
Matrix containing the posterior summary
statistics, with columns for Mean, SD, Naive SE, and
Time-series SE (also known as the Monte-Carlo standard error)
Matrix containing the posterior 2.5%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 97.5% quantiles
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