Research Article
Frequentist and Bayesian Regression Approaches for Determining Risk Factors of Child Mortality in Ghana
Table 1
Percentage distribution of the response variable (death status) and the predictors.
| Variable | (%) |
| Death status | | No (alive) | 5595 (95.09) | Yes (death) | 289 (4.91) | Gender | | Female | 2818 (47.89) | Male | 3066 (52.11) | Delivery place | | Private and other health facilities | 2172 (36.91) | Government | 3712 (63.09) | Caesarean section | | No | 5268 (89.53) | Yes | 616 (10.47) | Child size at birth | | Small | 1019 (17.32) | Average | 1944 (33.04) | Large | 2921 (49.64) | Wealth index | | Poor | 3190 (54.21) | Middle | 1083 (18.41) | Rich | 1611 (27.38) | Geographical location | | Rural | 3540 (60.16) | Urban | 2344 (39.84) | Mother’s education | | No formal education | 2042 (34.70) | Formal education | 3842 (65.30) |
|
|