Table 1.
Parameter c | Rate Class | ||||
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Lowest | Middle Lowest | Middle | Middle Highest | Highest | |
Intercept () | 12.08 | 12.91 | 14.26 | 16.87 | 23.63 |
Slope () | 0.41 | 0.38 | 0.44 | 0.56 | 0.69 |
Intercept variance () | 4.17 | 2.01 | 1.28 | 1.08 | 1.03 |
Slope variance () | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.23 | 0.31 | 0.94 |
Intercept-slope covariance () | 0.42 | 0.17 | 0.13 | 0.04 | 0.03 |
Error variance | 7.34 | 35.69 | 104.25 | 364.54 | 2,121.11 |
Percentage of counties | 19.8 | 28.7 | 31.8 | 15.8 | 4.0 |
APPA | 0.94 | 0.85 | 0.85 | 0.90 | 0.94 |
Abbreviation: APPA, average posterior probability of assignment.
a Average number of suicides per 100,000 population.
b Clusters are ordered by the 2008 average rate of suicide death in counties assigned to the cluster (lowest rate to highest rate).
c Estimates from the base model were not adjusted for additional covariates.