Table 1. Kenai Fjords Steller sea lion multi-state mark-recapture models tested in Program MARK.
| Model | #Par | QAICc | ΔQAICc | Weight | QDeviance |
| Sst pst ψst | 6 | 698.062 | 0.00 | 0.456 | 235.592 |
| S. pst ψst | 5 | 698.151 | 0.09 | 0.436 | 237.751 |
| St pst ψst | 10 | 701.873 | 3.81 | 0.068 | 231.006 |
| Sst.t pst ψst | 16 | 703.552 | 5.49 | 0.029 | 219.715 |
| Sst pst ψst*t | 16 | 706.039 | 7.98 | 0.008 | 222.201 |
| Sst pst.t ψst | 16 | 708.604 | 10.54 | 0.002 | 224.767 |
| Sst pst ψ. | 5 | 715.785 | 17.72 | 0.000 | 255.385 |
| Sst pst*t ψst*t | 26 | 719.762 | 21.70 | 0.000 | 213.254 |
| Sst*t pst*t ψst*t | 36 | 727.001 | 28.94 | 0.000 | 196.396 |
Survival (S), resight probability (p), and state transition (ψ) were tested for effects of state (st; B/N), year (t), or neither (.). All models tested were based on ĉ = 1.10.