[Retracted] Analysis of the Impacts of Health Cost and Risk Preference on Farmers’ Protective Behavior of Pesticide Application Based on the Autoregressive Threshold Model: A Case Study of Wuhu City in China

Table 3

Threshold test with “risk preference RP” as threshold variable in the low health cost group.

	HC ≤107.235			HC ≤107.235 RP ≤3 Low health cost - low-risk preference			HC ≤107.235 RP>3 Low health cost - high-risk preference
Dependent variable: Level of self-protection	Mean value; 4.323			Mean value; 3.481			Mean value; 5.166
Independent variable	Coefficient	Standard error	Mean value	Coefficient	Standard error	Mean value	Coefficient	Standard error	Mean value
Health costs (HC)	-0.322	0.008	72.262	-0.056	0.006	76.436	-0.056	0.154	68.812
Risk preference (RP)	-0.124	0.042	3.272	-0.265	0.084	2.127	-0.362	0.115	3.865
Observation sample size	326			192			134
R2	0.492			0.124			0.256

Heteroskedasticity Test ( value): 0. 160.