Research Article
Frequentist and Bayesian Regression Approaches for Determining Risk Factors of Child Mortality in Ghana
Table 3
Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) from frequentist logistic regression model.
| Predictor | uaOR(95% CI) | aOR(95% CI) |
| Gender | | | Female | 1 (reference) | 1 (reference) | Male | 1.165 (0.918, 1.478) | 1.202 (0.946, 1.527) | Delivery place | | | Private and other health facilities | 1 (reference) | 1 (reference) | Government health facility | 0.792 (0.623, 1.006) | 0.804 (0.624, 1.036) | Caesarean section | | | No | 1 (reference) | 1 (reference) | Yes | 1.314 (0.924, 1.868) | 1.449 (1.005, 2.089) | Child size at birth | | | Small | 1 (reference) | 1 (reference) | Average | 0.780 (0.600, 1.014) | 0.498 (0.362,0.684) | Large | 0.774 (0.610, 0.983) | 0.513 (0.384, 0.685) | Mother’s education | | | No formal education | 1 (reference) | 1 (reference) | Formal education | 0.748 (0.588, 0.952) | 0.766 (0.596, 0.984) |
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