Table 3.
Liquid feeding trial variables correlated throughout development.
| Lickometer Variable | Correlation 3 and 6 months a |
Correlation 6 and 12 months b |
|---|---|---|
| Meal Number | r = 0.146, p=0.534 | r = 0.211, p=0.226 |
| Meal Length | r = 0.338, p=0.054 | r = 0.17, p=0.408 |
| Intermeal Interval | r = −0.134, p=0.556 | r = 0.846, p = 0.000 |
| Meal 1 Length | r = 0.102, p=0.527 | r = 0.208, p=0.293 |
| Meal 1 Intermeal Interval | r = −0.147, p=0.479 | r = 0.852, p = 0.000 |
| Lick Count | r = 0.585, p=0.001 | r = 0.307, p=0.118 |
| Gram/lick | r = 0.249, p=0.15 | r = 0.442, p=0.016 |
| Gram/meal | r = 0.586, p=0.001 | r = 0.347, p=0.077 |
| Low fat consumption(g) | r = 0.471, p=0.009 | r = 0.579, p=0.001 |
| High fat consumption (g) | r = 0.281, p=0.237 | r = −0.32, p=0.111 |
| Total consumption (g) | r = 0.752, p=0.000 | r = 0.532, p=0.003 |
In order to evaluate whether feeding parameters remained stable throughout development for an individual lickometer variables measured at 3 months of age were compared to the same variable measured at 6 months of age (i.e.: meal number measured at 3 months was correlated with meal number measured at 6 months). Bold indicates significance at 0.05 α.
In order to evaluate whether feeding parameters remained stable throughout development for an individual lickometer variables measured at 6 months of age were compared to the same variable measured at 12 months of age (i.e.: meal number measured at 6 months was correlated with meal number measured at 12 months). Bold indicates significance at 0.05 α.