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Table 3.

Model-adjusted associations of current unpasteurized milk consumption with current atopy status ⁴⁰

Model	Model variables ^*	Exposure coefficient estimate	SE for coefficient	OR	95% CL for OR	Estimated bias and RMSE	Bootstrap SE ^† for coefficient	Bootstrap 95% CL ^‡ for OR
1 (basic)	Milk	0.899	0.225	2.46	1.58, 3.82	0.516 0.567	0.236	1.59, 3.97
2a (ML full)	Milk All other variables ^#	0.406	0.257	1.50	0.91, 2.48	0.023 0.262	0.261	0.89, 2.46
2b (Firth) ⁴²^,⁴³	Milk All other variables ^#	0.383	0.252	1.47	0.91, 2.40	0.000 0.251	0.251	0.89, 2.37
3a (forwards stepwise, P < 0.20)	Milk Town Firstborn Current smoker Town as a child Parents farmers Parents kept poultry Parents kept horses	0.390	0.244	1.48	0.91, 2.38	0.007, 0.261	0.261	0.87, 2.43
3b (forwards stepwise, P < 0.05)	Milk Town Current smoker Town as a child Parents kept poultry	0.383	0.243	1.47	0.91, 2.36	<0.001 0.261	0.261	0.88, 2.44
3c (backward stepwise, P < 0.20)	Milk Town Firstborn Current smoker Parents farmers Parents kept poultry Parents kept horses	0.398	0.244	1.49	0.92, 2.40	0.015 0.261	0.261	0.88, 2.47
3d (backward stepwise, P < 0.05)	Milk Town Current smoker Parents farmers Parents kept poultry Parents kept horses	0.414	0.244	1.51	0.94, 2.44	0.031 0.265	0.263	0.93, 2.61
4a (forwards AIC)	Milk Town Horses Firstborn Current smoker Parents kept poultry	0.381	0.243	1.46	0.91, 2.36	−0.002 0.260	0.260	0.86, 2.39
4b (backward AIC)	Milk Town Horses Firstborn Current smoker Parents kept poultry Parents kept horses Parents farmers	0.398	0.244	1.49	0.92, 2.40	0.015 0.262	0.262	0.88, 2.48
5a (forwards BIC)	Milk Town Current smoker Parents kept poultry	0.393	0.243	1.48	0.92, 2.39	0.010 0.264	0.264	0.88, 2.45
5b (backward BIC)	Milk Town Current smoker Parents kept poultry	0.393	0.243	1.48	0.92, 2.39	0.010 0.264	0.264	0.87, 2.45
6a (forwards CIE)	Milk Town	0.400	0.242	1.49	0.93, 2.39	0.017 0.255	0.254	0.93, 2.56
6b (backward CIE)	Milk Town	0.400	0.242	1.49	0.93, 2.39	0.017 0.255	0.254	0.92, 2.52
7a (forwards RMSE, larger model as referent)	Milk Town Poultry Collecting eggs Number of siblings Parents kept cows Parents kept poultry	0.363	0.245	1.44	0.89, 2.32	−0.020 0.258	0.257	0.86, 2.35
7b (backward RMSE, larger model as referent)	Milk Town Poultry Collecting eggs Firstborn	0.350	0.243	1.42	0.88, 2.29	0.017 0.257	0.256	0.84, 2.28
8a (forwards RMSE, full model as referent)	Milk Town	0.400	0.242	1.49	0.93, 2.39	−0.033 0.263	0.261	0.88, 2.45
8b (backward RMSE, full model as referent)	Milk Town Parents kept cows Parents kept poultry	0.407	0.242	1.50	0.94, 2.42	0.024 0.264	0.263	0.89, 2.51
9a penalization by log-F(1,1) priors ^§⁴⁵	Milk All other variables ^#	0.396	0.253	1.49	0.90, 2.44	0.013 0.253	0.253	0.90, 2.42
9b penalization by log-F(2,2) priors ^¶⁴⁵	Milk All other variables ^#	0.389	0.250	1.47	0.90, 2.41	0.006 0.246	0.246	0.90, 2.36

*All analyses are adjusted for age group and sex.

^† Based on 4000 bootstrap samples.

^‡ Bias-corrected and accelerated (BCa) with 4000 resamples. ⁵⁶

^# Town, farm, cows, pigs, poultry, sheep/goats, horses, milking cows, cleaning barns, collecting eggs, firstborn, number of siblings, current smoker, lived in town or village as a child, parents were farmers, family kept cows, family kept pigs, family kept poultry, family kept sheep or goats, family kept horses.

^§ Equivalent to F(1,1) prior for odds ratio; 95% prior limits are 1/648, 648.

^¶ Equivalent to F(2,2) prior for odds ratio; 95% prior limits are 1/39, 39.