Easy Access to Biomedicine and Knowledge about Medicinal Plants: A Case Study in a Semiarid Region of Brazil
Table 1
Selection of appropriate models with an information-theoretical approach.
Models
ΔAICc
df
Number of body systems treated by plants
Sex + age + education + residents + distance
2.8
6
Sex distance + age distance + education distance + residents distance
4.8
10
Education + education : distance
1.5
3
1
8.3
1
Age
0.0
2
Number of ethnospecies
Sex + age + educated + residents + distance
4.3
7
Sex distance + age distance + education distance + inhabitants distance
8.3
11
1
15.2
2
Age
0.0
3
Number of therapeutic targets
Sex + age + educated + inhabitants + distance
3.8
7
Sex distance + age distance + education distance + residents distance
8.4
11
1
15.0
2
Age
0.0
3
AICc is the small sample-corrected difference in the Akaike information criterion (AIC) between each model and the smallest AIC value. df is the degree of freedom; = interaction between variables and influence of each isolated variable; : = interaction between only two variables; 1 = comparison with the intercept.
