. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 12.

Published in final edited form as: Bayesian Anal. 2019 Jun 11;14(3):829–855. doi: 10.1214/18-ba1132

Table 5:

Mean number of annual admissions per patient and corresponding multiplicative ratios for patients residing in 3 hypothetical counties. 95% credible intervals are given in parentheses. Estimates are for the reference covariate group. Random effects for the average county were set to 0. Random effects for the remaining counties were set to 1 standard deviation (SD) above and 1 SD below average.

	Year
Mean No. of Admissions	2011	2015
Average County	0.97 (0.85, 1.10)	0.71 (0.62, 0.81)
1 SD Above Average	1.36 (1.19, 1.54)	2.12 (1.82, 2.46)
1 SD Below Average	0.68 (0.59, 0.78)	0.21 (0.17, 0.25)
Multiplicative Ratios
Average vs. Below-Average	1.42 (1.35, 1.48)	3.37 (3.05, 3.77)
Above-Average vs. Average	1.40 (1.34, 1.46)	3.00 (2.74, 3.31)
Above-Average vs. Below-Average	1.98 (1.83, 2.18)	10.17 (8.35, 12.46)