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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Zoo Biol. 2019 Jul 30;38(5):424–433. doi: 10.1002/zoo.21508

Table 4.

Estimates for each BCS system in statistical models to predict body composition, adjusted for sex and age.

Model AIC R2 Estimate SE P

Rel. FM = BCSM Sex Age 365.34 0.33 73.00 43.31 0.105
Rel. FM = BCSW Sex Age 362.61 0.39 43.91 18.58 0.027
Rel. FM = BCSF Sex Age 356.87 0.50 62.93 17.93 0.002
Rel. FM = BCSWi Sex Age 360.85 0.43 63.37 23.12 0.011

FM = BCSM Sex Age 389.30 0.21 157.57 66.44 0.026
FM = BCSW Sex Age 383.30 0.37 95.79 26.88 0.002
FM = BCSF Sex Age 378.64 0.46 116.35 26.45 <0.001
FM = BCSWi Sex Age 381.96 0.40 128.38 33.72 <0.001

FFM = BCSM Sex Age 444.73 0.589 359.84 178.76 0.055
FFM = BCSW Sex Age 440.27 0.65 221.62 74.34 0.006
FFM = BCSF Sex Age 442.39 0.62 210.46 82.56 0.018
FFM = BCSWi Sex Age 441.34 0.63 269.42 97.35 0.011

Mass = BCSM Sex Age 458.08 0.52 517.42 226.90 0.032
Mass = BCSW Sex Age 452.34 0.61 317.42 92.21 0.002
Mass = BCSF Sex Age 453.33 0.59 326.83 100.38 0.003
Mass = BCSWi Sex Age 453.00 0.60 397.82 119.88 0.003

Rel. FM: Relative fat mass; FM: fat mass; FFM: fat free mass; BCSM: BCSMorfeld; BCSW: BCSWemmer; BCSF: BCSFernando; BCSWi: BCSWijeyamohan.