The use of null models and partial least squares approach path modelling (PLS-PM) for investigating risk factors influencing post-weaning mortality in indoor pig farms

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 530-539

  Serrano, E ^a,b   Lopez Soria S ^c   Trinchera, L ^d   Segales J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE DE RECERCA EN SANITAT ANIMAL CRESA   (Spain)

^d NEOMA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Aujeszky's disease virus; Co infection; Porcine circovirus type 2; Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus; Swine influenza virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ARTERIVIRUS; ARTICLE; CIRCOVIRUS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FARM TYPE; INDOOR FARM; INFECTION PREVENTION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NULL MODEL ANALYSIS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES APPROACH PATH MODEL; PATHOGENESIS; PIG FARMING; POSTWEANING MORTALITY; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SWINE; SWINE INFLUENZA VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LEAST SQUARE ANALYSIS; PIG; SPAIN; SWINE DISEASE; VETERINARY MEDICINE; VIROLOGY; WEANING; ANTIBODIES AGAINST GLYCOPROTEIN E OF AUJESZKY DISEASE VIRUS; ARTERIVIRUS INFECTION; CIRCOVIRIDAE INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLUENZA; NULL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES APPROACH PATH MODELLING; PORCINE CIRCOVIRUS TYPE 2; POST WEANING MORTALITY; PSEUDORABIES; SEROPREVALENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIRUS DISEASES; WEANING;

EID: 84896470848     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813001295     Document Type: Article

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