Geospatial examination of lithium in drinking water and suicide mortality

Table 2 Global Moran’s I statistic for variables included in this study

	Moran’s I	p-val.
Dependent variable:
Suicide SMR	0.392	0.001 ***
Independent variables:
Lithium level	0.400	0.001 ***
Population density	0.015	0.269
Per capita income	0.551	0.001 ***
Prop. of Roman Catholics	0.276	0.001 ***
Unemployment rate	0.060	0.171
Psychiatrist density	0.066	0.132
Psychotherapist density	0.090	0.072
General practitioner density	0.041	0.668

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