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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Parasitol. 2014 Aug 13;44(13):977–984. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2014.06.010

Table 2.

Mean regression coefficient estimates (95% Bayesian Credible Interval, CrI) for variables included in a spatial random-effect zero-inflated binomial Bayesian model. Results are reported separately for the regions of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, in The Philippines.

Variable Luzon Posterior mean (95% CrI) Visayas Posterior mean (95% CrI) Mindanao Posterior mean (95% CrI)
Age 5–19 (vs Age <5) 1.66 (−1.37, 5.17) 9.305 (1.67, 20.54) 2.70 (−5.08, 13.57)
Age ≥20 (vs Age <5) 2.97 (0.42, 6.48) 10.23 (2.66, 21.39) 6.04 (1.86, 13.92)
Male (vs Female) 1.19 (0.03, 2.21) 2.92 (0.69, 7.82) 10.03 (1.94, 21.67)
Distance to water bodiesa 6.68 (14.04,0.66) 21.81 (43.20,3.53) 1.23 (5.40, 5.21)
Land surface temperaturea 4.75 (8.81,1.69) 1.73 (15.88, 10.10) 5.79 (3.76, 18.2)
NDVIa 4.13 (0.86, 8.25) 13.78 (30.55,2.41) 2.49 (16.54, 17.60)
Rainfalla 1.04 (−8.52, 10.93) 13.9 (5.93, 20.92) −7.53 (−14.78, −1.06)
Intercept 8.08 (12.88,4.56) 19.5 (33.90,5.20) 2.94 (6.84, 14.15)
Spatial parameters
Phi (ϕ) 11.41 (2.263, 19.59) 10.56 (1.32, 29.15) 12.12 (3.00, 19.6)
Variance of spatial random effect 17.56 (0.04, 97.3) 20.72 (2.40, 191.10) 38.63 (11.55, 113.6)
a

Variables were standardized to have mean = 0 and S.D. = 1.

Statistically significant effect sizes are presented in bold. NDVI, normalised difference vegetation index.