Prevalence of major digestive and respiratory helminths in dogs and cats in France: results of a multicenter study

Table 3 Model selection of mixed-effects models based on Akaike’s information criterion corrected for small sample size for testing the effects of different risk factors on parasitic infection in dogs and cats

Response variable	Model	df	AICc	ΔAICc	Weight^a
Dogs	Age + activity + LE + off-leash	8	318.7	0.00	0.299
	Age + TSLD + activity + LE + off-leash	11	319.7	1.01	0.180
	Age + activity + LE	5	320.2	1.48	0.142
	Age + TSLD + activity + LE	8	320.5	1.75	0.125
	Age + LE + off-leash	7	320.7	2.02	0.109
	Age + TSLD + LE + off-leash	10	320.9	2.22	0.098
	Age + TSLD + LE	7	320.7	2.02	0.109
	Age + LE	4	324.5	5.78	0.017
	Age + activity + off-leash	7	328.1	9.37	0.003
	Age + TSLD + activity + off-leash	10	328.1	9.42	0.003
Cats	Age + LLE	5	281.5	0.00	0.323
	Age + LLE + food	7	282.0	0.49	0.253
	Age + LLE + TSLD	8	282.7	1.14	0.183
	Age + LLE + TSLD + food	10	284.3	2.73	0.083
	Age + LLE + NODC	7	284.7	3.13	0.067
	Age + LLE + food + NODC	9	285.6	4.08	0.042
	Age + LLE + TSLD + NODC	10	286.0	4.43	0.035
	Age + LLE + TSLD + NODC + food	12	288.0	6.43	0.013
	Age + food	5	298.9	17.40	0.000
	Age + TSLD + food	8	299.2	17.69	0.000

Only the 10 first ranked models are presented. The final selected model is shown in with underlining
AICc (Akaike Information Criterion Corrected) for small sample size, LE living environment, LLE lifestyle/living environment, NODC number of other dogs and cats, TSLD Time since last deworming
^aWeight Akaike weights

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