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. 2015 Jul 15;10(7):e0130191. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130191

Table 2. GLM models for the effects of ingredient, color, interaction of ingredient and color, and relative brightness on dough chosen first as well as the effect of the dough’s color on the buzzards’ visitation rate.

Experimental identifier, treatment and data set Independent variable Parameter estimate SE Chi-square P
1: Ingredient (with constant color yellow)
All events Pollen 1.117 0.529 4.46 0.035
Sugar 0.493 0.383 1.66 0.198
Soybean -0.780 0.854 0.83 0.361
Individual-based events Pollen 1.723 0.912 3.57 0.059
Sugar -0.288 0.763 0.14 0.706
Soybean -24.078 195372 0.00 0.999
2: Color (with constant ingredients)
All events Color N/A N/A 23.00 <0.001
Individual-based events Color N/A N/A 8.00 0.005
3: Ingredient (with constant color black)
All events Pollen 0.865 0.422 4.21 0.040
Individual-based events Pollen 0.693 0.612 1.28 0.258
Relative brightness
All events Darker dough -0.053 0.188 0.08 0.778
Individual-based events Darker dough -0.095 0.309 0.10 0.758
1a & 3: Olfaction and vision interaction
All events Yellow 3.258 1.019 10.22 0.001
Black -2.393 1.103 4.71 0.030
Individual-based events Yellow 3.258 1.019 10.22 0.001
Black -2.565 1.189 4.65 0.031
Effect of color on visitation rate
All visits Proportion of yellow dough 2.402 0.367 42.89 <0.001

In experiment 2, we used a standard Chi-square test (see Methods). All other Chi-square values are Wald Chi-square values as calculated by SAS 9.4. Each Chi-square test has one degree of freedom.