International Journal of Health Geographics

Table 2 Regression results

From: Effects of health intervention programs and arsenic exposure on child mortality from acute lower respiratory infections in rural Bangladesh

	β	SE	p
Negative binomial model
Treatment area	−0.580	0.108	0.000
Arsenic (100 µg/L)	0.009	0.020	0.644
High socioeconomic status	−0.302	0.076	0.000
Cost distance to clinic^a	−0.092	0.052	0.077
(Intercept)	−4.359	0.073	0.000
Log (theta)	1.704	0.595	0.004
Zero-inflated model
Treatment area	11.985	76.145	0.875
Arsenic (100 µg/L)	−2.633	2.769	0.342
High socioeconomic status	1.007	1.334	0.450
Cost distance to clinic^a	1.206	1.339	0.368
(Intercept)	−15.708	76.162	0.837
N	6693

Zero-inflated negative binomial regression analysis of bari-level acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) mortality rates in children under 2 years of age in Matlab, Bangladesh, 1989–1996. Data source: icddr,b, Matlab Health and Demographic Surveillance System
^aCentered to the mean and scaled by the standard deviation

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