Table 4

Determinants of all-cause mortality: results from multilevel parametric frequentist versus Bayesian Weibull proportional hazard regression models (HRs with 95% CI and credible interval, respectively)

	Model 3.1		Model 3.2
	Frequentist		Bayesian
	HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI
Individual level
Generalised trust (group-mean centred)	0.92	0.88 to 0.97	0.94	0.91 to 0.98
Age	1.07	1.07 to 1.08	1.07	1.07 to 1.08
Race
Black (ref: white)	1.24	1.13 to 1.36	1.20	1.13 to 1.28
Other race	1.03	0.91 to 1.16	1.05	0.97 to 1.13
Sex
Female (ref: male)	0.69	0.65 to 0.73	0.69	0.67 to 0.72
Degree
Less than high school High school (ref:)	1.21	1.13 to 1.29	1.21	1.17 to 1.26
Junior college	0.84	0.73 to 0.97	0.89	0.81 to 0.97
Bachelor	0.84	0.77 to 0.91	0.89	0.85 to 0.92
Graduate	0.87	0.78 to 0.97	0.82	0.77 to 0.88
Marital status
Married (ref.)
Widowed	1.22	1.14 to 1.31	1.23	1.15 to 1.32
Divorced	0.99	0.92 to 1.08	0.99	0.95 to 1.04
Separated	1.05	0.97 to 1.26	1.11	1.00 to 1.10
Never married	1.32	1.21 to 1.44	1.26	1.21 to 1.33
Income
Household income (group-mean centred)	0.94	0.93 to 0.96	0.94	0.93 to 0.95
Contextual level
Generalised trust (z-standardised)	0.96	0.93 to 0.99*	0.96	0.94 to 0.98
Income inequality (GINI-coefficient, z-standardised)	0.99	0.96 to 1.03	1.00	0.98 to 1.02
Mean income (z-standardised)	0.99	0.95 to 1.02	0.99	0.96 to 1.01
Ln(p)		0.512
Residual variance (level 1)		0.593
Residual variance (level 2)		0.004
Level 2 variance explained		73%

Notes: statistically significant coefficients (p<0.05) boldfaced. Residual variance, level 1=0.921, residual variance, level 2= 0.015. Data source: GSS–NDI: n=25 270; number of failures=6424. Data weighted with WTSSALL (model 3.1).
*Full CI interval: 0.9252366- 0.999961.
NDI, National Death Index; GSS, General Social Survey.