Akaike's Information Criterion (AICc) ranking of <i>a priori</i> models used to estimate dependence of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) human cases on vertebrate host and forest cover parameters.

Df, Degrees of freedom; ΔAICc, difference in AICc between the best and the present model; ωi, Akaike's weight; Evidence ratios, ratio of Akaike's weights of the best and the present model. The table shows only the first five best-ranked models. §TBE, provinces where human TBE cases occurred; cop.hfor, density ratio of coppice to high stand forest cover; cop.mix, ratio of coppice to mixed forest cover; roe.deer, roe deer; red.deer, red deer density.