. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process. 2009 Oct;35(4):447–472. doi: 10.1037/a0015626

Table 4.

Indices of merit for the model comparison of Experiment 1

B#	Metric^a	20	40₁	40₂	80	.05
98	CD	0.03	0.06	0.17	0.06	0.19
	AIC	9	−1	32	29	115
	BIC	−17	−18	15	20	97

105	CD	0.07	0.02	0.17	0.13	0.16
	AIC	57	72	162	105	375
	BIC	38	55	134	91	352

106	CD	0.17	0.03	0.18	0.05	0.19
	AIC	47	40	69	5	217
	BIC	22	17	46	−14	193

107	CD	0.04	0.09	0.14	0.05	0.11
	AIC	101	40	13	18	88
	BIC	82	34	2	8	70

113	CD	0.04	0.07	0.30	0.03
	AIC	12	27	38	24
	BIC	−7	10	19	9

119	CD	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.07	0.07
	AIC	57	40	8	29	87
	BIC	25	17	−14	19	69



Grp	CD	0.06	0.05	0.16	0.06	0.14
	AIC	47	36	54	35	176
	BIC	24	19	34	22	156

The metrics of goodness of fit for the models are the coefficient of determination, the Akaike information criterion, and the Bayesian information criterion. Values of the last two greater than 4 constitute strong evidence for the MPS model.