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Table 1 Survival analysis: Estimated coefficients of the covariates in the survival analysis.

From: Modelling Marek's Disease Virus (MDV) infection: parameter estimates for mortality rate and infectiousness

Symbol

Coefficient

Value (95% CI via McMC)

z

p

r

Shape Parameter

4.18 (3.38,4.99)

-11.60

< 0.001

β 0

Intercept

4.54 (4.23,4.87)

26.08

< 0.001

β 1

Virulence Score

-0.53 (-1.01,-0.06)

-2.04

0.040

β 2

HVT vaccine

0.44 (0.24,0.66)

3.95

< 0.001

β 3

Bivalent vaccine

0.35 (0.19,0.52)

4.28

< 0.001

  1. The transformed virulence score is a continuous covariate and the vaccine treatment is a categorical covariate in an additive regression, giving the test statistic, z and the corresponding p value. The numbers in brackets are the 95% credible intervals.
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