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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 11.
Published in final edited form as: Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2015 Aug 11;0:45–54. doi: 10.1016/j.sste.2015.08.001

Table 1.

Description of predictor variables and their simulation.

Variable Spatial Distribution (marginal)
Median Age (years) Yes x1 ~ Norm(40,4)
Median Education (years) No x2 ~ Norm(13,4)
Median Income (thousands) No x3 ~ Norm(45,1)
Major Medical Center
(Yes/No)
Yes π ~ Norm(0,25)
logit (p) = π
x4 ~ Bern (p)