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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Vet Med. 2013 Mar 5;110(1):54–63. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2013.02.001

Table 1.

Parameter estimates for arcs remaining after pruning for within farm clustering and over fitting. The median and 95% credibility interval of the parameter estimate of each arc is shown.

Arc Log odds (or mean effect)


Child Parent Median Credibility Interval

50% 2.50% 97.50%
Rainfall (sum) Date ^ 2 −129 −149 −109
Rainfall (sum) Temperature (max) −16 −17 −16
Wind speed (mean) Temperature (max) −0.64 −0.67 −0.62
Milk spots Temperature (max) −0.044 −0.087 −0.0044
Enzootic pneumonia Temperature (max) −0.031 −0.044 −0.019
Wind speed (mean) Temperature (degree days) −0.0057 −0.0063 −0.005
Papular dermatitis Temperature (min) 0.052 0.04 0.064
Milk spots Temperature (min) 0.072 0.025 0.12
Abscesses Peritonitis 0.23 0.11 0.36
Peritonitis Milk spots 0.27 0.15 0.4
Milk spots Papular dermatitis 0.32 0.2 0.45
Hepatic scarring Papular dermatitis 0.33 0.23 0.44
Pyaemia Peritonitis 0.4 0.22 0.56
Peritonitis Tail damage 0.46 0.28 0.63
Pyaemia Pleurisy 0.55 0.31 0.8
Pyaemia Hepatic scarring 0.68 0.52 0.84
Abscesses Enzootic pneumonia 0.71 0.52 0.92
Pyaemia Enzootic pneumonia 0.75 0.45 1.1
Peritonitis Pleurisy 0.77 0.58 0.96
Wind speed (mean) Temperature (min) 0.78 0.75 0.82
Hepatic scarring Milk spots 0.79 0.68 0.89
Papular dermatitis Tail damage 0.79 0.62 0.96
Abscesses Pyaemia 0.82 0.66 0.97
Pleurisy Enzootic pneumonia 0.91 0.76 1.1
Peritonitis Pericarditis 1 0.88 1.2
Peritonitis Hepatic scarring 1 0.91 1.2
Abscesses Pleurisy 1.2 1 1.4
Pyaemia Tail damage 1.6 1.5 1.8
Temperature (max) Date 2 2.6 2.3 2.9
Rainfall (sum) Wind speed (mean) 6.1 5.7 6.5
Temperature (degree days) Temperature (min) 6.8 5.8 7.9
Temperature (degree days) Temperature (max) 17 16 17
Rainfall (sum) Temperature (min) 19 18 20