RegressionResultsReducedSample Final.docx

This updated table refers to a letter written in response to our PLoS article dealing with the association of corruption and antibiotic resistance.
Removing
the first couple of years from the regressions addresses the main concern of Heister
and Kaier, which was the number of tested isolates underlying the average
resistance in the earliest year, which they believe were insufficient
(especially for Estonia and Sweden). It should be noted however that we had
used the percentages for resistance as supplied by the European Centre for
Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on their website. These same issues
raised by Heister and Kaier thus pertain to the small minority of these widely
accepted results but based only on small numbers as published by this EU agency.

We attach the updated regression results, and also a brief note below to
explain what we did to address the issues raised. The updated regressions
results relate to Columns 2,3,5 and 6 in Table 3 of the original paper.