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. 2011 Jun 20;6(6):e20957. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020957

Table 4. Significance of effect of training area, size of training dataset, and set of bioclimatic variables on AUC values.

Model Area 1980/1955 Input variables Size
6/19var PCA/19var PCA/6var 20/10 Big/Small
1955 1980 1955 1980 1955 1980 1955 1980
BIOCLIM *** * *** ** *** ** ** NS NS ***
CSM *** NS NS NS NS NS NS NS NS NS
DKGARP . *** *** *** *** ** *** NS NS ***
DOMAIN *** NS NS NS *** NS *** NS NS NS
ED *** NS NS NS *** NS *** NS NS NS
ES NS NS NS NS NS NS NS NS NS ***
MAXENT *** NS NS *** *** *** *** NS NS NS
OMGARP . *** *** *** *** NS . NS NS NS
SVM *** NS NS NS * . * NS NS NS

Area 1980 vs. 1955, 6 variables vs. 19 variables, first three principal components (PCA) vs. 19 variables, PCA vs. 6 variables, training dataset size  =  20 vs. 10, big training dataset (more than 50 presence points) vs. small (less than 50).

***p<0.001 |

**p<0.01 |

*p<0.05 |. p<0.1 | NS not significant.