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. 2019 Mar 8;16(5):853. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16050853

Table 2.

Empty models of variation in drinking motives across neighborhoods (Intermediate Data Zones) (95% credible intervals).

Social Enhancement Coping Conformity
Neighborhood-level variance 0.004 (0.000, 0.012) 0.005 (0.001, 0.014) 0.014 * (0.002, 0.028) 0.002 (0.000, 0.006)
Individual-level variance 0.254 (0.233, 0.277) 0.242 (0.221, 0.264) 0.246 (0.224, 0.270) 0.156 (0.144, 0.170)
Neighborhood% of variance accounted for 1.3% 1.9% 5.2% 1.2%
Improvement in Bayesian DIC with neighborhood inclusion No Yes Yes No
DIC-1 level model 1645.62 1586.56 1646.82 1098.83
DIC-2 level model 1646.59 1586.08 1633.47 1101.18

Burn-in 5000; chain 200,000; Bayesian Deviance Information Criteria is used to examine for model fit improvement in single level compared to multilevel models; * p <0.05 z-score test; motives are log-transformed.