Table 2.
Model | Equation |
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Base | |
Mosq | |
Env | |
EnvAnom | |
EnvSv | |
EnvSvAnom | |
Comb | |
CombAnom | |
CombSv | |
CombSvAnom |
Note: is the probability of one or more WNV cases in county at time ; is a county-level fixed effect; is the mosquito infection growth rate (MIGR) in county i at time t; is the parameter for MIGR; cyc(w) is a cyclical seasonal function; k indexes two meteorological variables; l indexes daily lags up to days in the past; is a thin-plate spline function of lag days; is a thin-plate spline function of lag days and week of the year; is an untransformed meteorological variable for county i at time and is an anomalized meteorological variable for county i at time . Base, baseline; Comb, combined; CombAnom, combined with anomalies; CombSv, combined with seasonally varying distributed lags; CombSvAnom, combined with anomalies and seasonally varying distributed lags; Ens2, two model ensemble; Ens3, three model ensemble; Ens4, four model ensemble; Env, environmental; EnvAnom, environmental with anomalies; EnvSv, environmental with seasonally varying distributed lags; EnvSvAnom, environmental with anomalies and seasonally varying distributed lags; Mosq, mosquito.