Table 4.

Summary of model fit

Statistic	Null model	Full model
Moran I index	0.046	p < 0.001
Posterior mean of the deviance ($\overline{D}$)	12,842.07	11,977.19
Effective number of parameters (pD)	22.02	46.00
Deviance information criterion (DIC)	12,864.10	12,023.19
Between district variability of malaria ${\sigma }_u^2+{\sigma }_v^2$	933.99	906.33
Proportion of variance attributed to spatial autocorrelation (ɸ)	0.995	0.994