Modeling chronic wasting disease transmission risk in mule deer related to habitat characteristics
Table 3
Comparison of models predicting probability a mule deer newly tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a one-year period. Models listed are the top models representing each of five hypotheses: 1) null hypothesis (non-environmental covariates), 2) deer density hypothesis (containing kernel density estimate as a covariate), 3) habitat suitability hypothesis (containing environmental covariates related to habitat suitability), 4) prion persistence hypothesis (containing environmental covariates related to prion persistence), and 5) combination hypothesis (containing environmental covariates related to both habitat suitability and prion persistence). K indicates the number of parameters in each model, and AICc refers to Akaike’s Information Criterion for small sample sizes.