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. 2019 Mar 4;15:73. doi: 10.1186/s12917-019-1815-y

Table 1.

Spatial risk factors, standardized methods, and relative importance of each factor

Factors Fuzzy membership functions Inflection points Weights
a b c d
Bat preferred area Sigmoidal, monotonically increasing 0 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.18611
Distance to the nearest bat colony Sigmoidal, monotonically decreasing 5 km. 5 km. 5 km. 30 km. 0.28016
Distance to the nearest forest Linear, monotonically decreasing 100 m. 100 m. 100 m. 23 km. 0.06887
Distance to the nearest orchard Linear, monotonically decreasing 0 0 0 500 m. 0.11719
Distance to the nearest water body Linear, monotonically decreasing 0 0 0 1 km. 0.03663
Human population density Sigmoidal, monotonically decreasing 100 per km2 800 per km2 800 per km2 800 per km2 0.06979
Pig population density Linear, monotonically increasing 0 per km2 1,000 per km2 1,000 per km2 1,000 per km2 0.24126