Table 1.
Differences between numbers of ticks and TBE cases.
| Year | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| SPRING-SUMMER PERIOD | ||||||
| 2001 | – | |||||
| 2002 | 0.075* | – | ||||
| 2003 | 0.010 | 0.022 | – | |||
| 2004 | 0.339 | 0.012 | <0.001 | – | ||
| 2005 | 0.332 | 0.005 | <0.001 | 0.976 | – | |
| 2006 | 0.196 | 0.777 | 0.038 | 0.022 | 0.013 | – |
| SUMMER-AUTUMN PERIOD | ||||||
| 2001 | – | |||||
| 2002 | 0.407 | – | ||||
| 2003 | 0.303 | 0.978 | – | |||
| 2004 | 0.626 | 0.462 | 0.506 | – | ||
| 2005 | 0.806 | 0.428 | 0.403 | 0.920 | – | |
| 2006 | <0.001 | 0.002 | 0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | – |
*
p-values from Chow's test of whether the coefficients are equal in pairwise regression line comparisons of abundance of host-questing nymphs and cases of TBE.