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. 2016 Nov 8;15:179. doi: 10.1186/s12939-016-0467-9

Table 2.

Regression Results for Hospital Bed Density, China Counties, 2011

Log of hospital beds per 1000 people
OLS models Spatial lag models Spatial error models
Variables (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Log of saving per capita 0.175*** 0.228*** 0.144*** 0.216*** 0.233*** 0.232***
(10.693) (12.985) (8.852) (12.479) (13.321) (13.321)
Log of government revenue per capita 0.107*** 0.119*** 0.096*** 0.110*** 0.107*** 0.105***
(8.593) (9.216) (8.083) (8.647) (8.622) (8.254)
Percentage of urban population (%) −0.003*** −0.003*** −0.003*** −0.002*** −0.003*** −0.002***
(−4.180) (−3.073) (−3.752) (−2.905) (−4.080) (−2.154)
Log of area size (km2) 0.082*** 0.034*** 0.030*** 0.013 −0.009 −0.006
(8.332) (2.981) (3.167) (1.163) (−0.788) (−0.477)
Rho (ρ) / Lambda (λ) 0.724*** 0.486*** 0.905*** 0.925***
(24.329) (8.751) (33.334) (40.683)
Provinces dummies No Yes No Yes No Yes
Sample size 2043 2043 2043 2043 2043 2043
R2 0.253 0.394 0.329 0.411 0.403 0.439
Log likelihood −936.862 −723.352 −839.045 −698.927 −731.663 −669.284
Akaike info criterion 1883.72 1516.7 1690.09 1469.85 1473.33 1408.57
Spatial model diagnostic tests
Moran’s I (error) 43.144*** 19.880***
Robust Lagrange Multiplier (lag) 43.214*** 0.424
Robust Lagrange Multiplier (error) 1378.343*** 115.737***

(1) ***,** and * denote 1, 5 and 10 % significance levels, respectively; (2) Since there are 31 provinces in our dataset, 30 provinces dummies are added to the corresponding regressions; (3) All spatial model diagnostic tests are based on OLS