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. 2014 Mar 12;14:47. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-47

Table 4.

A: GLMM exploring the effects of brood type (broods with extra-pair chicks vs. broods with no extra-pair chicks) on hatching and fledging success, B: Relative variable importance given by Akaike weights (ΣAIC ω )

A.
Variables
Model
K
AICc
ΔAICc
ω
 
Hatching success
Null
1
74.1
0.00
0.523
 
(n = 65)
Brood type
2
76.1
1.96
0.196
 
 
Year
3
76.6
2.46
0.153
 
 
Year + brood type + year* brood type
5
78.1
3.97
0.072
 
 
Year + brood type
4
78.6
4.47
0.056
 
Fledging success
Year
3
96.6
0.00
0.722
 
(n = 55)
Year + brood type
4
99.0
2.42
0.215
 
 
Null
1
102.7
6.07
0.035
 
 
Year + brood type + year* brood type
4
104.1
7.54
0.017
 
 
Brood type
2
104.9
8.25
0.012
B.
Variables
Source of variation
ΣAIC ω
 
 
 
 
Hatching success
Brood type
0.32
 
 
 
 
 
Year
0.28
 
 
 
 
 
Year*brood type
0.07
 
 
 
 
Fledging success
Year
0.95
 
 
 
 
 
Brood type
0.24
 
 
 
    Year*brood type 0.02      

K = number of parameters. Asterisk means the interaction.