Table 4.

Posterior summaries for regression and variance parameters – Kidney cancer, Nova Scotia 1998-2010

Kidney cancer	Males			Females
Parameter	Mean	2.5 %	97.5 %	Mean	2.5 %	97.5 %
Intercept	0.032	−0.231	0.290	0.038	−0.259	0.326
% using well water	−0.001	−0.004	0.002	−0.001	−0.004	0.003
Material deprivation	−0.006	−0.112	0.097	0.052	−0.064	0.167
Social deprivation	0.008	−0.087	0.103	0.0004	−0.107	0.109
Spatial standard deviation	0.138	0.048	0.298	0.156	0.052	0.366
Unstructured standard deviation	0.265	0.174	0.390	0.251	0.137	0.440