Bayesian Regression Analysis of Correlates of Modern ContraceptiveMethod Usage: A Case Study in Hawassa City, Ethiopia

Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics

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GebreselassieHabtamu Kiros¹ 

[1] Haramaya University

关键词: Family planning;    Logistic regression;    Markov chain Monte Carlo;    Posterior distribution;    Prior density;   

DOI  :  10.4172/2155-6180.1000330

来源: Hilaris Publisher

【 摘 要 】

Despite widespread adoption of family planning in the developing world contraceptive use is still very low in sub-Saharan Africa including Ethiopia and in other regions. The general objective of this study was identifying the socioeconomic factors of modern contraceptive methods usage among married women of reproductive ages (15-49 years old) in Hawassa city. From a total 990 sampled married women about 57.9% (573) were modern contraception methods users. Bayesian logistic regression procedure was adopted to make inference about the parameters of a logistic regression model. The purpose of this method is generating the posterior distribution of the unknown parameters given both the data and some prior density for the unknown parameters. Bayesian inference for logistic regression models is derived applying a Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm to simulate from the joint posterior distribution of the regression and the link parameters.

【 授权许可】

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