Masting by beech trees predicts the risk of Lyme disease

Parasites & Vectors

Table 4 Support for the five most important explanatory variables of the NIP

Rank	Explanatory variable of interest	Support (%)
1	RLB	100.0
2	Year	100.0
3	PR	93.8
4	Site	48.2
5	RH1	5.7

The support for the 5 most important explanatory variables is shown from the AIC-based model selection table of the NIP. This support is calculated as the sum of the Akaike weights for all the models in the set that include that particular explanatory variable (see Table 1 for the acronyms of the explanatory variables). Additional file 1: Section 5 shows the results for all the explanatory variables.

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