Solution

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The Bayesian network has a shared parent and, for each hospital, the chain . A plate encloses the hospital-specific pair. Observed counts are shaded; the local rates are latent variables. Conditional on , the pairs are independent.
Figure 1.
Directed graph of a Poisson–exponential hierarchical model
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