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. 2016 Feb 3;9:63. doi: 10.1186/s13071-016-1340-9

Table 7.

Ranking of the 5 most important variables for MaxEnt model. We assigned a score ranging from 5 to 1 to the first 5 predictors for each of the three measurements of variable importance provided by MaxEnt. Afterwards, we summed the rank to provide an overall metric for variable importance

PC Rank contribution Rank permutation Rank training gain Overall rank
bio4 5 5 4 14
bio5 4 2 5 11
bio16 3 4 3 10
NDWIs 2 3 1 6
NDWIw 1 2 3