Research Article

Spatiotemporal Trends and Distributions of Malaria Incidence in the Northwest Ethiopia

Table 3

Parametric spatiotemporal trends and fixed and precision parameters estimate malaria incidence in northwest Ethiopia between 2012 and 2020.

VariableMeanModeStandard deviation0.025 quantile0.975 quantile

Fixed effect
Intercept−6.494−6.4360.014−6.522−6.466
Time (month)−0.016−0.0160.001−0.018−0.014

Precision of hyperparameters of the random effects
Spatial heterogeneity18303722126.76136.427230
Clustered spatial effect0.2370.2370.0290.1820.297
Differential effect11200111001394.488628.5614100

Dispersion parameter = 1.38 (test statistic = 2(lnL1 − lnL0) = 2,249,499.68; -value <0.05).