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. 2012 May 31;7(5):e36533. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036533

Table 2. Parameter estimates weight-averaged across the 51 “best” models predicting Andean potato weevil infestations (square root of proportion infested tubers).

95% CI
Variable Estimate SEM Lower Upper ω p
Intercept 1.774 0.936 −0.061 3.608 1
Observer effect 1 −0.043 0.019 −0.081 −0.005 1
Observer effect 2 −0.070 0.016 −0.102 −0.038 1
Perimeter/area ratio 0.519 0.150 0.225 0.814 1
Neighboring storage units 0.044 0.015 0.015 0.073 1
Neighboring current potato −0.004 0.002 −0.007 −0.001 1
Insecticide treatments January −0.053 0.021 −0.094 −0.013 1
Insecticide treatments December −0.054 0.025 −0.103 −0.004 1
Neighboring previous potato 0.007 0.004 0.000 0.014 0.91
Soil clay 0.005 0.003 0.000 0.010 0.91
Elevation (sqrt transformed) −0.031 0.013 −0.057 −0.005 0.83
Number of hillings 0.127 0.076 −0.022 0.275 0.71
Rotation 2007 [Not potato] −0.096 0.062 −0.216 0.025 0.71
Rotation 2006 [Not potato] 0.030 0.020 −0.008 0.069 0.49
Height of first potato hilling −0.006 0.004 −0.014 0.002 0.43
Height of row at harvest −0.005 0.003 −0.012 0.001 0.42
Chemical fertilization at planting −0.002 0.002 −0.006 0.002 0.23
Soil organic matter −0.012 0.008 −0.026 0.003 0.21

Notes: Estimates are followed by their standard errors, their 95% confidence intervals and their Akaike parameter weights (ω p). Given a set of similarly-adequate predictive models, parameter weights estimate the probability that the parameter is included in the best model in the set.