TABLE 5.

Regression coefficient values for township‐level Bayesian Gamma multilevel regression (LCU_Town).

Covariate	Rank	Regression coefficient	95% Credibility interval		Change in min deer density
			Lower bound	Upper bound	Direction	Change (%)
Deer_Dens1	1	0.949	0.801	1.096	Increase	1.583
LCU_Town	2	0.609	0.449	0.776	Increase	0.839
No_Hunt	3	0.357	0.154	0.56	Increase	0.429
Pub_Hunt	4	0.192	0.007	0.388	Increase	0.212