- "In the shrinkage plot above we show the coefficients of each county's non-hierarchical posterior mean (blue) and the hierarchical posterior mean (red). To show the effect of shrinkage on a single coefficient-pair (alpha and beta) we connect the blue and red points belonging to the same county by an arrow. Some non-hierarchical posteriors are so far out that we couldn't display them in this plot (it makes the axes too wide). Interestingly, all hierarchical posteriors of the floor-measure seem to be around -0.6 indicating that having a basement in almost all county's is a clear indicator for heightened radon levels. The intercept (which we take for type of soil) appears to differ among countys. This information would have been difficult to find if we had only used the non-hierarchial model.\n",
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