Michael L. Doherty

TL;DR: A range of calibration tests are described, which typically measure the accuracy of predicted probabilities by comparing them to mean event occurrence rates within groups of similar test records, and include overall goodness-of-fit statistics in the form of the Hosmer-Lemeshow and Brier tests.

TL;DR: Results from the present study indicate that the risk factors associated with mortality in pasture-based, seasonal-calving herds are similar to those reported in literature in confinement, nonseasonal-Calving herds.

TL;DR: Qualitative analysis revealed that cultural and social capital informed farmers' decisions on whether to introduce control and preventive measures and highlighted important barriers and potential aids to prevention and control in both infected and uninfected herds.

TL;DR: Information is reviewed from the national eradication programme and strategy performance predictions from an expert system model to quantify expected benefits of the strategy change from strategic, budgetary and implementation points of view, contributing to an informed debate of the pros and cons of a change in eradication strategy in Ireland.

TL;DR: This is the first in a two-part review of the epidemiology and control of paratuberculosis in dairy herds, where the assumptions around age susceptibility, faecal shedding in calves and calf-to-calf transmission are revisited.