Descriptive statistics for the distribution of the ln(OR)s of lung cancer for the 129 selected occupations (3-digit ISCO codes; n>10) obtained using Maximum Likelihood (ML), Semi-Bayes adjustment towards the global mean (SB) and hierarchical regression (HR).

aA 7-fold range means that we assume a priori that 95% of the true ORs are within a 7-fold range of each other (e.g. from 0.5 to 3.5).
bPrior range of ORs’ variation when matrix is the Identity matrix. A 20, 10, 5, or 2.5-fold range means that we have 95% a priori certainty that the residual OR for being ever employed in an occupation after accounting for the effect of the carcinogens will lie within a 20, 10, 5 or 2,5-fold range.