Bayesian regression model with application to a study of food insecurity in household level: a cross sectional study

Table 4 Result of Bayesian logistic Regression Analysis of food insecurity of household level

Node	Category	Coefficient	SE	MC Error	95.0% CI (\( \hat{\beta} \))
Node					Lower	Upper
Constant		1.320	1.106	0.038	−0.773	3.518
Sex of household head	Female	1.467*	0.493	0.005	0.536	2.469
Religion	Muslim	−0.481	0.735	0.007	−1.952	0.931
Agro-ecological zone	Woinadega	1.764*	0.579	0.012	0.644	2.922
Agro-ecological zone	Dega	1.463	0.992	0.011	− 0.451	3.449
Slope of agricultural land	Medium	−0.130	0.692	0.018	− 1.474	1.235
Slope of agricultural land	Gentle slope	1.126	0.899	0.018	−0.609	2.942
Saving habit	No	−0.081	0.449	0.006	−0.976	0.791
Taken loan	No	−1.334*	0.648	0.015	−2.642	−0.134
Irrigation practice	No habit	0.032	0.438	0.006	−0.831	0.886
Use of improved Seed	No	1.422	0.825	0.008	−0.130	3.104
Land ownership	Rented	−0.864*	0.422	0.005	−1.695	−0.042
Access to training	No	−1.514*	0.757	0.007	−3.027	−0.066
Age of household head	36–44	−2.748*	0.587	0.009	−3.936	−1.645
	45–64	−2.572*	0.531	0.009	−3.64	−1.571
	> = 65	−1.784*	0.709	0.009	−3.209	−0.422
Fertilizer use	No	−1.158	0.636	0.006	−2.419	0.0683
Marital status	Others	1.025*	0.475	0.005	0.109	1.970
Education of household head	No read &write	0.724	0.464	0.005	−0.175	1.637
Family size of household	4–6	1.54*	0.452	0.007	0.669	2.447
Family size of household	> = 7	2.938*	0.648	0.008	1.712	4.252
Land size in hectare	1.6–2	−0.096	0.417	0.004	−0.913	0.722
Land size in hectare	> 2	−1.313*	0.439	0.006	−2.188	−0.457
TLU	> = 2.5	−0.859*	0.387	0.004	−1.633	−0.117
Soil fertility	Infertile	2.809*	0.939	0.006	1.216	4.895

First category = Reference category, * = significant at 5% level of significance

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