TABLE 6.

Regression coefficient values for the county‐level multilevel Bayesian regression (LCU_County).

Covariate	Rank a	Regression coefficient	95% Credibility interval		Change in min deer density
			Lower bound	Upper bound	Direction	Change (%)
Deer_Dens1	1	0.715	0.636	0.792	Increase	1.044
LCU_County	2	0.169	0.118	0.22	Increase	0.184
No_Hunt	3	−0.599	−0.754	−0.444	Decrease	0.820
Pub_Hunt	—	0.018	−0.159	0.195	—	—

^a Only statistically significant covariates were assigned a rank.