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. 2016 Oct 21;10(10):e0005040. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005040

Table 2. Mean age predictions of female and male wMel and wMelPop infected Ae. aegypti mosquitoes using the cross validation method.

wMel infected Ae. aegypti: Cross Validation wMelPop infected Ae. aegypti: Cross validation
wMel infected females [N = 284] wMel infected males [N = 277] wMelPop infected females [N = 229] wMelPop infected males [N = 234]
Actual age Mean predicted age [95% CI] SEM Actual age Mean predicted age [95% CI] SEM Actual age Mean predicted age [95% CI] SEM Actual age Mean predicted age [95% CI] SEM
1 2.8a[1.6–3.9] 0.5 1 4.8a[3.9–5.6] 0.4 1 2.4a[1.4–3.9] 0.5 1 3.9a[2.9–5.0] 0.5
5 10.0b[9.2–10.7] 0.3 5 6.4ab[5.6–7.2] 0.3 5 9.0b[8.3–9.8] 0.3 5 8.9b[7.9–9.8] 0.4
10 13.2c[12.3–14.1] 0.4 10 7.6b[6.6–8.6] 0.4 10 9.7b[8.6–10.8] 0.5 10 11.0c[10.1–11.9] 0.4
15 13.6c[12.4–14.7] 0.5 15 15.8c[15.1–16.5] 0.3 15 12.6c[11.6–13.6] 0.4 15 12.2c[11.0–13.4] 0.5
19 14.6c,d[13.6–15.7] 0.5 19 16.7c[15.4–18.1] 0.6 19 16.4d[15.6–17.2] 0.4 19 14.3d[13.3–15.2] 0.4
20 15.8d[14.9–16.7] 20 16.7c[15.9–17.6] 0.4

Means followed by the same letter are not significantly different at P<0.05 when using Tukey post hoc test

Actual and mean predicted ages shown are in days

1 The accuracy of samples used to develop calibration models