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. 2017 Oct 12;12(10):e0185962. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185962

Table 3. Model of occurrence of WND cases in humans in administrative districts of the European Union between 2002 and 2014, according to the predicted structural bird-borne risk of WNV circulation and to the population size.

Variable Odds-ratio (95% confidence interval) p-value
Intercept 0.008 (0.004–0.016) <0.0001
Proportion of pixels classified high-risk with a probability >0.5a 1.7b (1.5–1.9) <0.0001
Proportion of pixels classified high-risk with a probability >0.8 a 7.4b (2.9–24.0) 0.0001
Population size (x105)
    <1.3 Ref.
    1.3–2.5 1.5 (0.7–3.4) 0.34
    2.5–4.8 3.5 (1.8–7.5) 0.0006
    >4.8 3.1 (1.5–6.5) 0.002

aPixels with an predicted risk above the 90th percentile of the risk distribution in >50% (resp. 80%) of bootstrapped risk maps.

bOdds-ratios computed for an increase of 0.05 of the proportion.