Table 2 Partial rank correlation coefficients between characteristics of model input data (i.e. number of farms within 50 km of centroid, DD >13.3 °C and number of off-farm movements in Jun, Jul and Aug) and model outputs (i.e. percentage of simulations with nonzero outbreak and median of nonzero outbreak sizes).

From: The effect of temperature, farm density and foot-and-mouth disease restrictions on the 2007 UK bluetongue outbreak

Number of farms within 50 km of centroid

DD >13.3 °C

Number of OFF movements in Jun, Jul and Aug

Percentage of simulations with nonzero outbreak

median of nonzero outbreak sizes

1

−0.45

0.07

0.15

0.69

 

1

−0.31

0.79

0.50

  

1

0.11

0.23

   

1

−0.30

    

1

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