Letter to the Editor Concerning Teske et al. (2015)

• Published in: Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 63 - 65
• Main Authors: Schleier, Jerome J, Peterson, Robert K. D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 15000 Commerce Parkway, Suite C, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054 American Mosquito Control Association, Inc 01.03.2016; American Mosquito Control Association
• Subjects: Animals; Confidence intervals; Culicidae; Editors; Insect Vectors; Insecticides; LETTER TO THE EDITOR AND REBUTTAL; Mosquito Control - instrumentation; Mosquito Control - methods; Vegetation
• ISSN: 8756-971X; 1943-6270
• DOI: 10.2987/moco-32-01-63-65.1

The paper by Teske et al. (2015) allows the authors an opportunity to clarify many points about Schleier et al. (2012), Schleier and Peterson (2014), and their model, MULV-Disp 1.0, and it requires them to discuss numerous fundamental conceptual, statistical, mathematical, calculation, and other errors in Teske et al. (2015). These errors are so profound that they obviate the primary points of their paper. As the authors will show, many of the arguments Teske et al. (2015) use to claim that their model is flawed actually support their model. The central arguments by Teske et al. (2015) are dependent on a fundamental misunderstanding and misuse of equations reported in Schleier et al. (2012) and Schleier and Peterson (2014). Teske et al. (2015) incorrectly assumed the equations reported in our papers were our model, MULV-Disp.