Shared component modelling as an alternative to assess geographical variations in medical practice: gender inequalities in hospital admissions for chronic diseases

Table 2 BYM modelling: results by gender

	Men Median (CI_95%)	Women Median (CI_95%)
Parameter estimates
Unstructured variance( $σ_{h}^{2}$ )	0.022 (0.004,0.038)	0.037 (0.022,0.054)
Marginal Spatial variance( $σ_{u}^{2}$ )	0.054 (0.036,0.073)	0.060 (0.040,0.080)
Fraction of variability explained
Spatial fraction	71.2% (50.1,94.5)	61.7% (45.2, 77.2)
Model fit comparison criteria
DIC (Total DIC = 3888.07)	1942.81 (p_D = 174.90)	1945.26 (p_D = 175.721)

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