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. 2014 Jul 17;9(7):e102304. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102304

Table 2. Parameters of the selected Bayesian models (M4) for both P. falciparum and P. vivax (sequentially as intercept β0, EVI, TSI, Precipitation, random effects at (facility, district and province), temporal parameter and spatial CAR prior effect φ, SD is the Standard Deviation).

Parameter Mean SD 5% 50% 95%
P. falciparum Intercept (β0) −3.630 0.387 −4.244 −3.633 −3.008
EVI (β1) −0.031 0.079 −0.162 −0.031 0.099
TSI (β2) 0.164 0.127 −0.042 0.163 0.334
Precipitation (β3) 0.008 0.051 −0.077 0.008 0.091
Facility random effect (τ1) 1.940 1.903 0.192 1.380 5.534
District random effect (τ2) 2.484 0.829 1.355 2.369 4.010
Province random effect (τ3) 3.668 1.164 2.040 3.521 5.838
Rho for the month (ρ) 0.849 0.117 0.617 0.881 0.969
Spatial effect (φ) 5.492 4.535 0.698 2.376 20.970
P. vivax Intercept (β0) −2.065 0.240 −2.451 −2.069 −1.662
EVI (β1) −0.026 0.019 −0.058 −0.026 0.005
TSI (β2) 0.124 0.048 0.046 0.124 0.202
Precipitation (β3) 0.013 0.011 −0.005 0.013 0.031
Facility random effect (τ1) 8.383 1.778 6.095 8.057 11.750
District random effect (τ2) 2.081 1.976 0.181 1.500 5.888
Province random effect (τ3) 7.972 3.953 3.897 6.922 15.530
Rho for the month (ρ) 0.728 0.098 0.551 0.737 0.872
Spatial effect (φ) 3.141 0.983 1.759 3.024 4.933

The betas represent the fixed effects of the covariates.