Table 1. Statistical analysis of the proportion of paramecium cells dispersing in experiments 1 and 2.
Factor | F | d.f. | P | |
Experiment 1: Manipulation ofculture medium | Clone identity1 | 2.98 | 5, 17 | 0.041 |
Log (population density in the experimental apparatus)1 | .29 | 1, 17 | 0.023 | |
Log (population density previously contained by thedonor medium) | 0.29 | 1, 21 | 0.60 | |
Clone identity of the donor medium population | 1.67 | 5, 17 | 0.19 | |
Donor and assayed paramecia are from the sameor a different clone. | 0.01 | 1, 21 | 0.92 | |
Experiment 2: Manipulation ofpopulation density | Clone | 14.1 | 2, 7 | 0.003 |
Log (experimental population density) | 12.6 | 1, 7 | 0.009 | |
Tube of origin [nested in Clone] | 5.99 | 3, 7 | 0.024 |
The values provided for significant terms are those in the final model; for the others, the values are those when added one by one to the final model.
because clone and initial density are partly confounded, these two terms were not significant when added simultaneously to the model (SAS-type 3 fitting), but each was significant when added first in sequential (type 1) fitting procedure.