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. 2019 Jul 22;14(7):e0219666. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219666

Table 3. Fixed effects of optimal GLMM (Model 2) for the probability of skipping the test words.

Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)
(Intercept) -1.19934 0.14841 -8.08123 < 0.00001
FREQ -0.00302 0.04398 -0.06872 0.94521
PRED -0.00839 0.02461 -0.34099 0.73311
LENGTH -0.46003 0.05747 -8.00517 < 0.00001
LAUNCH 0.61519 0.04106 14.98372 < 0.00001
FREQ:LENGTH -0.04980 0.03213 -1.54996 0.12115
FREQ:LAUNCH 0.00729 0.01811 0.40250 0.68732
PRED:LENGTH -0.02576 0.01987 -1.29634 0.19486
PRED:LAUNCH 0.01514 0.01428 1.06002 0.28914
LENGTH:LAUNCH -0.00224 0.01905 -0.11767 0.90633
PRED:LENGTH:LAUNCH 0.01968 0.01150 1.71096 0.08709
FREQ:LENGTH:LAUNCH 0.02751 0.01339 2.05526 0.03985

The fixed structure included the effects of word length (“LENGTH”; 4–8 letters), word frequency (“FREQ”; 0.20–5.93 log units), word predictability (“PRED”; between -2.60 and 2.60 logit units), and saccadic launch-site distance (“LAUNCH”; between -6.00 and -0.002 letters from the space in front of the test words), the three-way interactions between word frequency, word length and launch-site distance and between word predictability, word length and launch-site distance, as well as corresponding two-way interactions; the random structure included a random intercept by participant and by sentence pair, as well as by-participant random effects of word length and launch-site distance, but without the correlation between random effects (see S1 Table). The model's estimates and standard errors are expressed in logit units. The intercept estimate (logit: -1.19934) indicates that test words were skipped in about 23% of the cases, when all variables were at their reference, mean, value (Word Length: 5.82 letters; Launch Site: -2.93 letters; Word Frequency: 3.06 log units; Word Predictability: -0.96 logit units). Colon stands for interaction. See S3 Table for the corresponding minimalist optimal GLMM.