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. 2017 Jul 21;7:6104. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-06313-w

Table 2.

Relative frequency is the proportion of sand flies found in the test arm (late stage infection) compared to the total number of sand flies in the test and control arm (before infection) combined.

hamster Relative frequency 95% credible interval Probab Probab Rel.Freq >0.75
2.50% 97.50% Rel.Freq >0.5
1 0.5 0.16 0.86 0.5 0.1
2 0.47 0.26 0.69 0.4 <0.01
3 0.52 0.4 0.65 0.64 <0.01
4 0.75 0.65 0.85 1 0.51
5 0.93 0.85 0.98 1 0.99
6 0.72 0.61 0.82 0.99 0.29
7 0.53 0.37 0.69 0.64 <0.01
8 0.46 0.34 0.6 0.29 0
9 0.46 0.33 0.59 0.29 0
10 0.88 0.79 0.94 1 0.99
11 0.85 0.73 0.94 1 0.93
12 0.84 0.74 0.92 1 0.95
13 0.5 0.36 0.65 0.5 <0.01
controls
14 0.41 0.25 0.57 0.14 0
15 0.46 0.34 0.59 0.29 0
16 0.52 0.33 0.71 0.58 <0.01
17 0.46 0.32 0.61 0.32 <0.01
18 0.55 0.38 0.71 0.7 <0.01
19 0.54 0.35 0.72 0.65 0.01

The, larger this frequency the more attractive the hamster odour is to sand flies. Credible interval is calculated on the posterior distributions (Supplementary Fig. S1) of the relative frequency of each hamster as result of accounting for uncertainty in the test parameters. The probability that the relative frequency is larger than 50 and 75% is reported in the last 2 columns.