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Christopher S. Jennelle, Evan G. Cooch, Michael J. Conroy, and Juan Carlos Senar. 2007. State-specific detection probabilities and disease prevalence. Ecological Applications 17:154–167.

Appendix D. Weekly counts (C) of house finches, estimated encounter probabilities ( : U = uninfected; I =infected ) taken from Faustino et al. (2004), estimated prevalence ( : A = apparent; C = corrected ), and % relative bias (%RB) from November through March 2002–2003 in Ithaca, New York, USA.

Week

CU

CI

%RB

Nov 9

139

25

0.887

0.892

15.2

15.2

0.5

Nov 16

171

22

0.105

0.103

11.4

11.6

-1.7

Nov 23

40

5

0.466

0.549

11.1

9.6

15.8

Nov 30

90

19

0.777

0.631

17.4

20.6

-15.5

Dec 7

126

16

0.722

0.549

11.3

14.3

-21.3

Dec 14

102

9

0.866

0.426

8.1

15.2

-46.7

Dec 21

-

-

0.865

0.426

-

-

-

Dec 28

12

1

0.616

0.425

7.7

10.8

-28.6

Jan 4

65

3

0.843

0.573

4.4

6.4

-30.6

Jan 11

104

17

0.450

0.275

14.0

21.1

-33.4

Jan 18

45

7

0.647

0.610

13.5

14.2

-4.9

Feb 1

22

8

0.700

0.463

26.7

35.5

-24.8

Feb 8

102

19

0.542

0.265

15.7

27.6

-43.1

Feb 15

43

9

0.779

0.232

17.3

41.3

-58.1

Feb 22

69

7

0.715

0.588

9.2

11.0

-16.1

Mar 1

59

9

0.997

0.539

13.2

22.0

-39.9

Mar 8

83

13

0.595

0.177

13.5

34.5

-60.7

LITERATURE CITED

Faustino, C. R., C. S. Jennelle, V. Connolly, A. K. Davis, E. C. Swarthout, A. A. Dhondt, and E. G. Cooch. 2004. Mycoplasma gallisepticum infection dynamics in a House Finch population: Empirical analysis of seasonal variation, encounter and transmission rate. Journal of Animal Ecology73:651–669.



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