Table 5. p-values, regression coefficients and response surface model fitting diagnostic statistics for WCR larval responses to 4-component diet mixtures.
| Weight p-values |
Regression coefficients | % Survival p-values |
Regression coefficients | % Molt p-values |
Regression coefficients | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model | <0.0001 | - | 0.0006 | - | <0.0001 | - |
| Linear mixture | <0.0001 | - | 0.0029 | - | <0.0001 | - |
| A | - | 0.13 | - | 0.72 | - | -2.17 |
| B | - | 0.05 | - | 0.97 | - | -0.33 |
| C | - | -0.13 | - | 0.02 | - | -3.86 |
| D | - | -0.67 | - | 0.65 | - | 1.28 |
| A x B | 0.1981 | -1.88 | - | - | 0.0020 | 4.68 |
| A x C | 0.1999 | 0.16 | - | - | <0.0001 | 12.61 |
| A x D | 0.0014 | 0.76 | - | - | 0.7000 | -0.80 |
| B x C | 0.0029 | 0.48 | - | - | <0.0001 | 8.12 |
| B x D | 0.0005 | 0.85 | - | - | 0.5689 | -0.94 |
| C x D | <0.0001 | 1.78 | 0.0020 | 4.19 | 0.0021 | 6.74 |
| A x B x C | 0.0105 | 1.42 | - | - | 0.0097 | 10.96 |
| A x B x D | - | - | - | - | 0.0052 | 9.47 |
| Lack of fit | 0.3901 | 0.6193 | 0.9866 | |||
| Model type | Special Cubic (reduced) | Quadratic (reduced) | Special Cubic (reduced) | |||
| Transformation | N/A | N/A | Arcsin Sqrt (%molt+0.01) | |||
| R2 | 0.9923 | 0.6869 | 0.9759 | |||
| R2adj | 0.9846 | 0.6086 | 0.9465 | |||
| R2pred | 0.9488 | 0.4464 | 0.8996 |
A: sucrose, B: wheat germ, C: casein, D: corn root powder. Arcsin Sqrt: arcsine square root.