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Published in final edited form as: Ann Appl Stat. 2013 Apr 9;7(1):154–176. doi: 10.1214/12-AOAS600

Table 2.

Parameter estimates for asthma hospitalization data, where estimates for $τ_{.}^{2}$ represent the median (95% CI) of the $τ_{i}^{2}$ , i = 1, …, N_S = 58

Parameter

Median (95% CI)

β₀ (Intercept)

9.17 (8.93, 9.42)

β₁ (Pop Den)

0.60 (0.49, 0.70)

β₂ (Ozone)

−0.18 (−0.28, −0.08)

β₃ (% Black)

1.24 (1.15, 1.34)

β₄ (% Under 18)

1.12 (1.01, 1.24)

β₅ (February)

−0.25 (−0.46, −0.04)

β₆ (March)

−0.21 (−0.48, 0.07)

β₇ (April)

−1.47 (−1.81, −1.12)

β₈ (May)

−1.17 (−1.53, −0.8)

β₉ (June)

−2.79 (−3.21, −2.4)

β₁₀ (July)

−3.78 (−4.21, −3.37)

β₁₁ (August)

−3.58 (−4.02, −3.13)

β₁₂ (September)

−1.96 (−2.37, −1.54)

β₁₃ (October)

−1.36 (−1.73, −1.00)

β₁₄ (November)

−0.71 (−1.02, −0.42)

β₁₅ (December)

0.63 (0.41, 0.86)

0.90 (0.84, 0.97)

0.77 (0.71, 0.80)

σ²

21.52 (20.18, 23.06)

τ_{.}^{2}

3.32 (0.18, 213.16)