| AP | Available phosphorus |
| CA | Crude ash |
| AIC | Akaike information criterion |
| AR1 | First-order autoregressive |
| ARMA | Autoregressive moving average |
| CF | Crude fiber |
| CP | Crude protein |
| CS | Compound symmetry |
| DE | Digestible energy |
| DM | Dry matter |
| DS | Dongshan |
| EE | Ether extract |
| FCR | Feed conversion ratio |
| GAMM | Generalized additive mixed model |
| LM | Linear model |
| LMM | Linear mixed model |
| LT | Longtan |
| PS | Pushi |
| RMSE | Root mean square error |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| TP | Total phosphorus |
| TY | Taoyuan |