Small-area spatio-temporal analyses of bladder and kidney cancer risk in Nova Scotia, Canada

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Posterior summaries for regression and variance parameters – Bladder cancer, Nova Scotia 1998-2010

Bladder cancer	Males			Females
Parameter	Mean	2.5 %	97.5 %	Mean	2.5 %	97.5 %
Intercept	−0.105	−0.297	0.086	0.007	−0.301	0.309
% using well water	0.001	−0.002	0.003	−0.001	−0.005	0.003
Material deprivation	−0.297	−0.109	0.048	0.055	−0.067	0.178
Social deprivation	0.046	−0.023	0.116	−0.018	−0.130	0.094
Spatial standard deviation	0.228	0.157	0.352	0.199	0.086	0.439
Unstructured standard deviation	0.124	0.072	0.193	0.240	0.126	0.421

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