Figure 5

Classification tree model showing the model parameters that differed significantly between the various study sites. The results show that differences in the infection aggregation parameter (k₀), signifying how over dispersed infection among individuals in each community was (lower value higher the overdispersion), the acquired immunity parameter (c) and the establishment rate (ψ₂s₂), primarily underlay the variations observed in the parameter vector estimates obtained between the study communities investigated in this study. The cross-validated error rate of the displayed model (with eight splits) was low at approximately 1%. The classification tree was fit using the rpart package in R.