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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Anim Ecol. 2010 Jul 14;79(5):1012–1022. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01717.x

Table 4.

Validation test for the ENFAs performed. Boyce Index (BI) was determined using a window size of 20.

Species AVI CVI BI Nb factorsa Nb partitionsb
Aardwolf 0·52 ± 0·09 0·07 ± 0·11 0·22 ± 0·30 3 4
Banded mongoose 0·52 ± 0·23 0·41 ± 0·22 0·40 ± 0·54 3 5
Black-backed jackal 0·45 ± 0·07 0·32 ± 0·06 0·86 ± 0·09 3 4
Bat-eared fox 0·45 ± 0·12 0·19 ± 0·08 0·14 ± 0·19 3 4
Goldenjackal 0·50 ± 0·16 0·43 ± 0·15 0·68 ± 0·29 5 4
Caracal 0·36 ± 0·27 0·24 ± 0·24 0·31 ± 0·48 4 5
Cheetah 0·48 ± 0·03 0·36 ± 0·03 0·28 ± 0·19 5 4
Civet 0·48 ± 0·17 0·31 ± 0·16 0·38 ± 0·26 5 4
Dwarf mongoose 0·54 ± 0·12 0·50 ± 0·12 0·38 ± 0·38 4 5
Honey badger 0·47 ± 0·12 0·32 ± 0·11 0·41 ± 0·21 4 4
Leopard 0·47 ± 0·05 0·16 ± 0·01 0·35 ± 0·01 2 2
Lion 0·36 ± 0·22 0·29 ± 0·22 0·23 ± 0·59 5 2
Serval 0·46 ± 0·13 0·18 ± 0·13 0·33 ± 0·40 5 10
Slender mongoose 0·49 ± 0·33 0·30 ± 0·28 0·31 ± 0·52 5 4
Spotted hyaena 0·43 ± 0·07 0·32 ± 0·08 0·77 ± 0·18 5 4
Side-striped jackal 0·50 ± 0·21 0·40 ± 0·20 0·56 ± 0·14 5 5
White-tailed mongoose 0·50 ± 0·21 0·36 ± 0·17 0·83 ± 0·15 3 4
Wild cat 0·43 ± 0·16 0·27 ± 0·12 0·54 ± 0·30 4 3

AVI, Absolute Validation Index; CVI, Contrast Validation Index.

a

Determined by the broken-stick heuristics (Jackson 1993).

b

Determined by Huberty’s rule of thumb (Fielding & Bell 1997).