Table 3. Associations between mortality rates.
| Association | α | β | r | R²% | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fig. 2 IMR/SBR | -3.2315 | 2.8385 | 0.8253 | 68.12 | 187 |
| Fig. 3e(0)/SBR | 77.1610 | -0.6850 | -0.8180 | 66.09 | 187 |
| Fig. 4 MMR/SBR | -7.8799 | 2.1842 | 0.7161 | 51.28 | 172 |
| Fig. 5 MMR/attendantsa | 127.4733 | -1.2429 | -0.7791 | 60.70 | 172 |
| Fig. 6 SBR/attendants | 45.0857 | -0.3464 | -0.6670 | 44.49 | 187 |
e(0), life expectancy at birth in years; IMR, infant mortality rate; MMR, maternal mortality rate per 10 000 live births; SBR, stillbirth rate. a A better fit (R² = 66.06%) is given by the exponential relationship: y = 549.6446 * 10–0.0223x which is illustrated in Fig. 5.