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. 2019 Aug 15;9(8):563. doi: 10.3390/ani9080563

Table 1.

Sources of (dis)agreement for the CH4 concentration and number of peaks.

Item CH4 Concentration in (ppm) Number of Peaks
NDIR LMD_cal NDIR LMD_cal
LSMean (SE) 1280 (88.3) a 991 (57.3) b 4.24 (0.1) a 4.69 (0.1) b
Between-cow variation 149081 a 54556 b 0.18 0.19
Within-cow variation 352398 a 187742 b 1.16 a 0.76 b
Repeatability 0.42 0.23 0.14 0.20
Repeat measures correlation 0.98 1.00
Individual level correlation 0.94 1.00
Pearson correlation 0.73 0.72
Spearman correlation 0.74 0.72
Concordance correlation coefficient 0.62 0.66
Coefficient of individual agreement 0.83 0.77

NDIR: Non-dispersive infrared CH4 sensor; LMD_cal: Laser CH4 detector transformed to ppm; SE: Standard error; estimates with subscripts differ (p < 0.05).