Table 3.

The posterior means and standard deviations of the regression coefficients in Model 2

Variables	Mean	SD	95 % CI	R-hat
Minimum slope gradientsa	0.2941	0.1453	0.0049, 0.5777	1.0459
Proportion of paddy fieldsa	0.1556	0.1493	−0.1320, 0.4565	1.0074
Proportion of farmlanda	0.4603	0.1413	0.1863, 0.7469	1.0341
Structured heterogeneity termb	0.0014	0.0008	0.0002, 0.9042	1.1295

Model 2 is the hierarchical spatial model which included structured heterogeneity term. 95 % CI, 95 % credible interval; SD standard deviation

^aEach estimated regression coefficient is the standardized coefficient, which indicates the relative contribution to the incidence risk of bovine ephemeral fever

^bThe standard deviation of the structured heterogeneity term