Journal Pre-proof An animal health example of managing and analyzing a large volume of data on a PC: modeling body weight and age of over 13 million cats for explanatory and predictive purposes Adam Campigotto, Theresa Bernardo, Elizabeth Stone, Deborah Stacey, Zvonimir Poljak PII: S0167-5877(19)30413-1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2019.104824 Reference: PREVET 104824 To appear in: Preventive Veterinary Medicine Received Date: 26 June 2019 Revised Date: 23 October 2019 Accepted Date: 1 November 2019 Please cite this article as: Campigotto A, Bernardo T, Stone E, Stacey D, Poljak Z, An animal health example of managing and analyzing a large volume of data on a PC: modeling body weight and age of over 13 million cats for explanatory and predictive purposes, Preventive Veterinary Medicine (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2019.104824 This is a PDF ﬁle of an article that has undergone enhancements after acceptance, such as the addition of a cover page and metadata, and formatting for readability, but it is not yet the deﬁnitive version of record. This version will undergo additional copyediting, typesetting and review before it is published in its ﬁnal form, but we are providing this version to give early visibility of the article. Please note that, during the production process, errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. © 2019 Published by Elsevier.