Figure 3
Permutation-based linear model (PBLM) results with degree as response variable. (A) Significance and direction of coefficients of the dog-level networks. (B) Proportion of deviance of the PBLM explained by each variable in the dog-level networks. (C) Significance and direction of coefficients of the household-level networks. (D) Proportion of deviance explained by each variable in the household-level networks. Empty field denote variables that were not explored or were not selected for the best models by the PBLM (see methods). Details on the values of the coefficients and p values are presented in the Supplementary Tables S10–S21. Dog-level factors (see also Supplementary Table S3) are: dog's sex (Sex—0: male (baseline), 1: female); body condition score (BCS) of 2 and lower (Low BCS), BCS of 4 and higher (High BCS) with the baseline of BCS = 3; being a guardian dog (Guardian, dummy variable), hunting dog (Hunting, dummy variable), shepherd dog (Shepherd, dummy variable) or raised for meat (Source of meat, dummy variable); free-roaming time (FRT—range from 0 to 10); number of dogs collared per household (NDC, contiguous variable); and distance per 100 m from dogs home to the centroid of the study site (Distance, continuous variable). Household-level factors (see also Supplementary Table S4) are: wealth category based on the Multiple Factor Analysis or the income when available (Wealth, with the lowest level (i.e. poorest) being the baseline); owner finalizing primary school (Primary school), finalizing secondary school (Secondary school), finalizing professional training or university (Higher Education), with absence of formal education being the baseline; owner belonging to the main local ethnicity (Ethnicity, dummy variable), being catholic (Catholic, dummy variable), being evangelic (Evangelic, dummy variable); number of dogs collared per household (NDC, contiguous variable); and distance per 100 m from household to the centroid of the study area (Distance, continuous variable).
