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