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Table 1 Spatial risk factors, standardized methods, and relative importance of each factor

From: A spatial assessment of Nipah virus transmission in Thailand pig farms using multi-criteria decision analysis

Factors

Fuzzy membership functions

Inflection points

Weights

a

b

c

d

Bat preferred area

Sigmoidal, monotonically increasing

0

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.18611

Distance to the nearest bat colony

Sigmoidal, monotonically decreasing

5 km.

5 km.

5 km.

30 km.

0.28016

Distance to the nearest forest

Linear, monotonically decreasing

100 m.

100 m.

100 m.

23 km.

0.06887

Distance to the nearest orchard

Linear, monotonically decreasing

0

0

0

500 m.

0.11719

Distance to the nearest water body

Linear, monotonically decreasing

0

0

0

1 km.

0.03663

Human population density

Sigmoidal, monotonically decreasing

100 per km2

800 per km2

800 per km2

800 per km2

0.06979

Pig population density

Linear, monotonically increasing

0 per km2

1,000 per km2

1,000 per km2

1,000 per km2

0.24126