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. 2007 Feb 8;7(Suppl 1):S5. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-S1-S5

Table 3.

Accuracy of model selection under backward elimination, AIC and AICc. Letters in parentheses indicate the model codes formerly used by Yang and Swanson [4].

Backward elimination

Model Heterogeneous parameters p = 0.05 p = 0.0001 AIC AICc
1 (E) κ, ω, c, π's 100% 96% 91.7% 91.7%
2 (D) κ, ω, c 92% 100% 91.7% 100.0%
3 κ, ω, π's 61% 67% 38.9% 33.3%
4 κ, ω 94% 100% 77.8% 83.3%
5 κ, c, π's 88% 92% 62.5% 66.7%
6 κ, c 79% 100% 75.0% 75.0%
7 κ, π's 67% 67% 44.4% 44.4%
8 κ 83% 100% 55.6% 55.6%
9 ω, c, π's 71% 83% 58.3% 58.3%
10 ω, c 79% 96% 75.0% 75.0%
11 ω, π's 50% 67% 38.9% 38.9%
12 ω 89% 100% 66.7% 66.7%
13 (C) c, π's 83% 88% 62.5% 58.3%
14 (B) c 63% 88% 58.3% 58.3%
15 π's 56% 61% 38.9% 38.9%
16 (A) none 83% 100% 38.9% 55.6%
overall 78% 88% 63% 64%