Table 1. Significant environmental variables to determine favorable habitat for Ixodes scapularis using discriminant analysis.

Groups (sample size)
	0 vs. 1,2,3 (47 vs. 65)		0,1 vs. 2,3 (63 vs. 69)		0 vs. 1 vs. 2 vs. 3 (47 vs. 16 vs. 24 vs. 25)
Variable	Wilk’s lambda	Disc F(x)	Wilk’s lambda	Disc F(x)	Wilk’s lambda	Disc F(x)1	Disc F(x)2
Forest type	0.784	0.552	0.789	0.789	0.754	0.665	-0.747
Soil order	0.618	0.521	0.699	0.542	0.569	0.633	0.774
Land cover	0.586	0.387
Soil texture	0.564	0.381
Bedrock	0.525	0.518
Eigenvalue	0.904		0.431		0.681		0.045
Canonical correlation coefficient	0.689		0.549		0.636		0.207
% correctly classified	85.7		78.6		51.8