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. 2011 Oct 3;11:133. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-133

Table 4.

Comparison of Poisson regression results using nonspatial GLMM and spatial GLMMs with neighbourhood based or distance based autocorrelation structure

Nonspatial GLMM Neighbourhood-based GLMM Distance-based GLMM
Factor RR SE* 95% CI P-value RR SE* 95% CI P-value RR SE* 95% CI P-value



lower upper lower upper lower upper

Literacy 1.00 0.11 0.90 1.11 0.99 0.88 0.21 0.58 1.33 0.21 0.93 0.25 0.57 1.52 0.39
Income 0.83 0.22 0.67 1.03 0.20 0.67 0.29 0.50 0.89 0.04 0.74 0.23 0.59 0.93 0.06
Urbanisation 0.78 0.19 0.65 0.94 0.08 0.55 0.35 0.39 0.77 0.05 0.70 0.22 0.56 0.87 0.05

* Standard error of RR