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. 2023 Jun 21. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.06.008

Table 4.

Generalized Additive Model results for pre-vaccination antibody level.

PARAMETRIC TERMS DF F P
LOCATION 1 48.3 <0.0001
SEX 1 14.06 0.0002



SMOOTH TERMS EDF F P
AGE 1.0 8.36 0.0038

Explanations: DF: degrees of freedom for parametric terms, EDF: estimated degrees of freedom for smooth terms (corresponding to the degree of the polynomial, e.g. 1 is a straight line, 2 is a second-degree polynomial, etc.), F: Snedecor's test statistic, P: p-value (in bold when p < 0.05).