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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 19.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2017 May 19;199:87–95. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.05.038

Table 4.

Bayesian conditional autoregressive Poisson models for counts of violent crimes 2013–2014; 1940 Census tracts, Philadelphia (n = 404)

Model 2a Model 2b Model 2c
IRR (95% CI) IRR (95% CI) IRR (95% CI)
HOLC Zone
 Green (reference)
 Blue (100% increase) 2.711 1.282 6.534 1.863 0.718 6.639
 Yellow (100% increase) 4.225 1.683 10.392 2.415 0.800 8.882
 Red (100% increase) 5.518 2.466 14.325 2.571 0.913 11.001
 No Zone (100% increase) 10.665 4.568 26.128 4.531 1.565 17.288
1940 Census Variables
 White and Other Race (reference)
 Black (10% increase) 0.981 0.902 1.069 0.995 0.916 1.079
 House value ($1,000 increase) 0.906 0.852 0.955 0.946 0.888 1.001
 Concentrated Disadvantage (z-score) 1.451 1.199 1.774 1.354 1.124 1.656
Proportion variance explained by spatial random effect 0.925 0.766 0.999 0.960 0.859 0.998 0.959 0.842 0.997

Nb. Bolding denotes credible intervals do not include the null value of 1.000, providing evidence of an association