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Table 1 Generalized linear model results of the association of vertical transmission with regard to age

From: Levels of neutralizing antibodies against resident farm strain or vaccine strain are not indicators of protection against PRRSV-1 vertical transmission under farm conditions

FORMULA > model <—glmer(VT ~ AGE + (1 | FARM), data = data, family = binomial, control = glmerControl(optimizer = "bobyqa"))

AIC

BIC

logLik

Deviance

df.resid

 

271.8

285.9

-131.9

263.8

245

 

Scaled residuals

Min

1Q

Median

3Q

Max

 

-0.7190

-0.6454

-0.4666

-0.4188

2.3876

 

Random effects

Groups

Name

Variance

Standard deviation

  

Farm

(intercept)

0.02988

0.1728

  
 

Estimate

Standard Error

z value

Pr( >|z|)

Interpretation

Fixed effects

Intercept

-1.6344

0.2847

-5.741

9.44e-09

p < 0.001

AgeYoung

0.8648

0.3432

2.520 0.855

0.0117

p < 0.05

AgeOld

0.3806

0.4453

 

0.3927

non-significant

Correlation of Fixed Effects

(Intr)

AgeYoung

   

AgeYounga

-0.681

    

AgeOldb

-0.473

0.388

   
  1. aYoung sows were considered to be sows in parities 1 and 2
  2. bOld sows were those of parity ≥ 7