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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2013 Apr 15;49(12):10.1037/a0032272. doi: 10.1037/a0032272

Table 1.

Median BIC For Models of Memory Recall Proposed to Explain Animal Fluency Data

Model Model characteristics Cue(s) Switches Median BIC Median w Median no. of switches Best fit (%)
1 Single cue, static Frequency 84.8 2.22 8
2 Single cue, static Similarity 88.5 1.33 0
3 Multiple cue, static Frequency 82.3 1.80 17
3 Multiple cue, static Similarity 1.06
4 Multiple cue, dynamic Frequency Troyer et al. (1997) 81.2 2.02 9 19
4 Multiple cue, dynamic Similarity 1.39
5 Multiple cue, dynamic Frequency Similarity drop 79.4 1.88 5 55
5 Multiple cue, dynamic Similarity 1.28

Note. BIC = Bayesian information criterion. Models were fit using the maximum likelihood method to find the optimal w for each model–cue combination for each individual.