Table 2 Mean sampled parameter estimates of the midline model and the respective standard deviation. The parameters set to fixed values are the maximum number of time steps \(t_{max}=10\) and the time prior parameter for early T-category patients \(p_{early}=0.3\).
From: A probabilistic model of bilateral lymphatic spread in head and neck cancer
Parameter | Mean (%) | SD (%) |
|---|---|---|
\(p_\epsilon\) | 8.16 | ± 0.48 |
\(b_1^\text {i}\) | 2.80 | ± 0.26 |
\(b_2^\text {i}\) | 34.89 | ± 1.40 |
\(b_3^\text {i}\) | 5.45 | ± 0.66 |
\(b_4^\text {i}\) | 0.94 | ± 0.18 |
\(b_5^\text {i}\) | 1.83 | ± 0.22 |
\(b_7^\text {i}\) | 2.32 | ± 0.26 |
\(b_1^{\text {c},\epsilon =\texttt {False}}\) | 0.29 | ± 0.09 |
\(b_2^{\text {c},\epsilon =\texttt {False}}\) | 2.46 | ± 0.29 |
\(b_3^{\text {c},\epsilon =\texttt {False}}\) | 0.14 | ± 0.07 |
\(b_4^{\text {c},\epsilon =\texttt {False}}\) | 0.19 | ± 0.08 |
\(b_5^{\text {c},\epsilon =\texttt {False}}\) | 0.05 | ± 0.04 |
\(b_7^{\text {c},\epsilon =\texttt {False}}\) | 0.50 | ± 0.17 |
\(\alpha\) | 33.87 | ± 4.32 |
\(t_{12}\) | 62.50 | ± 16.69 |
\(t_{23}\) | 14.23 | ± 1.64 |
\(t_{34}\) | 15.86 | ± 1.93 |
\(t_{45}\) | 14.58 | ± 3.76 |
\(p_\text {adv.}\) | 44.98 | ± 1.99 |
