mates are Maximum A Posteriori
 (MAP) estimates or, more precisely, Restricted MAP (ReMAP) estimates.

 Several values for the variance of the prior  are successively considered,  to
 illustrate the effect of this prior variance on the parameter estimates.  When
 the variance is small, the MAP estimate is close to the mode of the prior.  On
 the other hand, when the variance is large,  the prior becomes "flat"  and the
 MAP estimate is close to the ReML estimate (see figure b).
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