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(d) The latent indicator variables wij in equation (2.7) are sampled from the complete
conditional posterior distribution (marginalized with respect to ¾∙):

Pr(wv = g I βj,rijg,pjg) <xpjgμ^,σ2‰+1j - xf βj ~ ri)

-$∕⅛σ∣(¾j,J - Xi βj ~ ri)] ∙

(e) For each j, we update (p7ι,... ,pja) from

f(pjl,.. .,pjtG I j,..., wnj) = Dirichlet(a'jl,..., a'jG),
with a'jg = ajg + #{z : wij = g}.

(f) The latent variables vij are updated by draws from the truncated normal distri-
bution

f(υij I βj,ri,wij -g,μjg,zij = k) <x N(υij χTβj+rijg,σf)I{θkj ≤ zij < ⅛+lj∙).

Finally, for each toxicity type and grade, we evaluate the posterior probability of
toxicity for a future patient. For each type of toxicity, using the equations (2.6) and
(2.8), the posterior probability πj∙⅛ ≡
Pr(zfj fc∣z), f = n + 1, that a future patient
with covariate vector
xf exhibits the toxicity j at level к is estimated from the Gibbs
sampler outputs. Let
ηm denote the imputed value of the generic parameter η after
m iterations of the Gibbs sampler. We report

7rJfc = ∑f=ι pΦfj = k I wfj = 9, z)pr(wfj = 9 I z)

~ ɪ        V'g ʃ<τ> (θk+1∙i~x'∕9jl-μ^1 _ j, (θki~x}9f-μ,jlg ɪ

~ M Z-∕m=l 2^3=1 ɪ       y∕91+9J Jv∕σ≡+σf J ʃ

where M is the total number of MCMC iterations retained after an initial burn-in.

2.6 Applications

2.6.1 A Simulated Dataset

We use a simulated dataset to validate the model. A total of n = 1000 subjects were
assigned into two groups,
A and B, of equal size. For each subject i, there were four



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