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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Anim Behav. 2015 May 1;103:267–275. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.02.012

Table 2.

Estimates of factors influencing vigilance in free-ranging rhesus macaques based on output of Markov chain Monte Carlo general linear model

Posterior mean Lower 95% CI Upper 95% CI
Intercept* 0.33 0.28 0.38
Sex (male)* 0.042 0.009 0.078
TPH2IP genotype (long)* −0.052 −0.084 −0.022
5-HTTLPR genotype (short) −0.004 −0.035 0.035
Age* −0.0049 −0.0080 −0.0019
Group size −0.000070 −0.0046 0.0032

Values indicate that the mean rate of vigilance during the movies was 33%. Males had an additional 4.2% increase in vigilance versus females, and long TPH2IP carriers had a 5.2% decrease in vigilance compared with short TPH2IP subjects. Age was inversely related to vigilance, with a decrease of 0.049% vigilance for each additional year.

An asterisk indicates those factors with 95% confidence intervals (CI) that did not overlap zero. Categorical factors in parentheses indicate the level used for comparison to baseline.