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Table 1 Models fitted to assess the effects of the reproductive variables

From: The effects of reproductive variables on child mortality in Ethiopia: evidence from demographic and health surveys from 2000 to 2016

Models

 

Main independent variables

  
  

Birth interval

Maternal age

Birth order

Other independent variables

Deviance

Null

      
 

Model_0

    

12,079

Additive

      
 

Model _ 1a

X

   

12,003

 

Model _ 1b

 

X

  

12,030

 

Model _ 1c

  

X

 

12,049

 

Model _ 2a

X

  

X

11,489

 

Model _ 2b

 

X

 

X

11,531

 

Model _ 2c

  

X

X

11,550

 

Model _ 3a

X

X

 

X

11,450

 

Model _ 3b

X

 

X

X

11,472

 

Model _ 3c

 

X

X

X

11,524

 

Model _ 4

X

X

X

X

11,447

Multiplicative

      
 

Model _ 5a

X

X

 

X

11,440

 

Model _ 5b

X

 

X

X

11,439

 

Model _ 5c

 

X

X

X

11,443