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. 2017 Sep;20:56–66. doi: 10.1016/j.epidem.2017.03.004

Table 1.

Comparisons of best fit FOI model per Bartonella spp. genotype w/& w/out sampling site deviations in λ.

Bartonella spp. Model Form Optimized Parameter Estimates
neg. log-likeli-hood LRT p-val††
Force of Infection
Site-Specific Deviations to λ
σ
λ (0–15) λ (16–30) λ (30+) Ank. Out Ank. In Rano. Out Rano.In
B. elizabethae 1 SIS 1.75−23 5.93e-02 5.10e-02 0.286 52.56
SIS
(w/λ site deviations)
4.91e-35 4.83e-01 4.11e-01 6.26 1.95 2.42 6.58 43.98 17.16 0.00003***
B. elizabethae 2 SIS 4.26e-09 6.38e-02 2.46e-02 0.680 23.25
SIS
(w/λ site deviations)
4.91e-35 4.38e-01 1.70e-01 2.42 2.78 6.62 19.89 6.726 0.00950***
B. phoceensis 1 SI (null) (constant FOI) 0.0065 75.28
SI (null)
(w/λ site deviations)
(constant FOI) 0.0067 1.22 1.29 0.662 0.862 73.91 2.742 0.09774*
B. rattimassiliensis 1 SI 1.07e-02 1.17e-12 2.71e-11 60.84
SI
(w/λ site deviations)
1.48e-02 7.20e-13 8.30e-12 0.681 0.860 1.247 0.145 57.27 7.136 0.00756***
SIS (constant FOI) 0.011 0.050 60.66
SIS
(w/λ site deviations)
(constant FOI) 0.515 2.04 2.28 3.64 0.306 6.47 57.46 6.394 0.01145**

Likelihood ratio test ††associated p-value from a chi-squared distribution comparing the negative binomial log-likelihood of the more restrictive to the less restrictive model via the following equation: 2*(ll(m2)-ll(m1)) where m1 = more restrictive, no site deviation model and m2 = less restrictive, site deviation-permitting model. These values indicate mean lambda values across subset of sites for which each model fit is tabulated; site-specific deviations are added to mean to reproduce values visualized in Fig. 2. *Statistical significance by p-value standard <0.1*, <0.05**, <0.01***.