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. 2018 Jan 15;8(1):13. doi: 10.3390/ani8010013

Table 4.

Social network measures using HWI 1 for littermate pens with or without victimized pigs in the pen.

Item Littermate Pens SE p-Value
With Victimized Pigs Without Victimized Pigs
# of pens 3 3
Pigs/pen 8 8
At 6 weeks of age
  Density 2 0.125 0.113 0.013 0.56
  Distribution of ties 3
   Absent ties 19.7 20.0 2.56 0.93
   Weak ties 6.3 6.0 1.45 0.88
   Strong ties 2.0 2.0 0.82 1.00
At 8 weeks of age
  Density 0.131 0.139 0.016 0.74
  Distribution of ties
   Absent ties 19.3 17.3 2.54 0.60
   Weak ties 6.0 8.3 1.41 0.35
   Strong ties 2.7 2.3 0.94 0.81

1 HWI stands for half-weight association index. 2 Density = sum of HWI/28. 3 The number of each type (absent, weak, or strong) of ties. The number of possible ties was 28 for each pen of 8 pigs.