Table 2.

Direct and delayed effects of common vole abundance (as index) in interaction with study area (SA) on TULV seroprevalence in the host population. The categorical factor contained three levels with Weissach as the reference category. Number of observations each = 43, degrees of freedom each = 6. Bold values indicate significance of p value (p < 0.05). SE = standard error; SD = standard deviation; z = Wald statistics defined as Estimate / SE.

	Same Season (Direct Effect)				Previous Season (Delayed Effect)
Parameter	Estimate	SE	z	p	Estimate	SE	z	p
Intercept	−1.735	0.333	−5.215	0	−2.675	0.344	−7.785	0
Abundance	−0.028	0.012	−2.335	0.02	0.023	0.01	2.315	0.021
Jeeser	−0.481	0.45	−1.069	0.285	0.755	0.454	1.662	0.097
Gotha	−0.643	0.5	−1.286	0.198	0.261	0.49	0.531	0.595
Abundance: Jeeser	0.055	0.018	3.001	0.003	−0.024	0.02	−1.212	0.226
Abundance: Gotha	0.022	0.03	0.73	0.466	−0.033	0.036	−0.926	0.354
Random factor	Variance	SD			Variance	SD
Site:SA	0	0			0.129	0.359
SA	0	0			0	0