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. 2023 Aug 3;23:1479. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-16045-4

Table 3.

The random effects of the multilevel multinomial logistic regression in assessing the factors associated with DBM

Parameters Null model Model I Model III Model III
Community level variance 0.36 0.30 0.34 0.26
Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) 0.099 0.083 0.094 0.073
Proportional Change in Variance (PCV) Reference 0.167 0.056 0.278
Median Odds Ratio (MOR) 1.77 1.68 1.74 1.62
Deviance (-2Log-likelihood) 2,456,811.4 2,244,835.0 242,176.8 2,239,708.2

Null model contains only the outcome variable and cluster numbers, model I; a model that includes only individual-level variables, model II, a model that includes only community-level variables, and model III; a model that includes both individual and community-level variables