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Table 3 Mixed logit models for best-worst scaling data: software and coding method accuracies

From: Agropastoralists’ Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Modeling: Software and Coding Method Accuracies for Best-Worst Scaling Data

R software

SAS software

Agropastoralists’ climate change strategies

Estimate

Agropastoralists’ climate change strategies

Estimate

Strategic mobility

0.887*(0.088)

Settlement

0.571*(0.080)

Mutual assistance

0.587*(0.089)

Emergency destocking

0.369*(0.075)

Settlement

0.582*(0.076)

Prolific animal selection

0.347*(0.085)

Strategic destocking

0.528*(0.077)

Water and soil conservation activities

0.299*(0.068)

Prolific animal selection

0.521*(0.072)

Strategic mobility

0.264*(0.067)

Sheep and cattle fattening

0.515*(0.079)

Transhumance

0.214*(0.069)

Vaccination

0.483*(0.071)

Mutual assistance

0.172*(0.073)

Transhumance

0.407*(0.075)

Sheep and cattle fattening

0.080(0.074)

Emergency destocking

0.266*(0.074)

Income generating income

0.052(0.066)

Water and soil conservation activities

0.183*(0.075)

Vaccination

−0.059(0.066)

Changing herd composition

0.181*(0.075)

Strategic destocking

−0.142(0.066)

Income generating activities

0.048(0.079)

Changing herd composition

−0.583(0.079)

Base: Forage cultivation

0.0000

Baseline: Forage cultivation

0.000

Standard deviation estimates

Standard deviation estimates

Sd.(Strategic mobility)

1.210*(0.161)

Sd.(Settlement)

1.068*(0.153)

Sd.(Mutual assistance)

1.631*(0.163)

Sd.(Emergency destocking)

1.106*(0.148)

Sd.(Settlement)

0.598*(0.191)

Sd.(Prolific animal selection)

1.430*(0.152)

Sd.(Strategic destocking)

0.814*(0.163)

Sd.(Water and soil conservation activities)

0.330(0.251)

Sd.(Prolific animal selection)

0.104(0.522)

Sd.(Strategic mobility)

0.513*(0.201)

Sd.(Sheep and cattle fattening)

0.801*(0.158)

Sd.(Transhumance)

0.549*(0.178)

Sd.(Vaccination)

0.129(0.397)

Sd.(Mutual assistance)

0.935*(0.151)

Sd.(Transhumance)

0.895*(0.155)

Sd.(Sheep and cattle fattening)

1.069*(0.148)

Sd.(Emergency destocking)

0.897(0.153)

Sd.(Income generating activities)

0.044(0.440))

Sd.(Water and soil conservation activities)

0.879*(0.151)

Sd.(Vaccination)

0.338(0.247)

Sd.(Changing herd composition)

0.912*(0.150)

Sd.(Strategic destocking)

0.223(0.374)

Sd.(Income generating activities)

1.210*(0.151)

Sd.(Changing herd composition)

0.974*(0.149)

Log likelihood

−8586.9

−8845

 

Numbers of observations(N)

14,612

14,612

 

Run time

11 m:22 s

7 m:43 s

 
  1. Numbers in parentheses are standard errors, * denotes mean importance of the policy which is statistically different from forage cultivation, Sd stands for standard deviations