Table 1.
Posterior distribution summary of progesterone and testosterone means (
, ng g−1) in blubber of fin whales from the Gulf of California.
| Mean | SD | 2.5% | 25.0% | 50.0% | 75.0% | 97.5% |
|
N eff (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progesterone | ||||||||||
|
1.58 | 1.30 | 0.97 | 1.33 | 1.56 | 1.84 | 2.76 | 1.00 | 92.86 | |
|
26.05 | 1.66 | 8.55 | 19.43 | 27.12 | 36.24 | 64.78 | 1.00 | 100 | |
| Testosterone | ||||||||||
|
0.88 | 1.23 | 0.59 | 0.77 | 0.88 | 1.01 | 1.32 | 1.00 | 65 | |
A Gelman–Rubin convergence statistic (
) close to one indicates good convergence of chains. The Neff is the effective sample size as the percentage of the total iterations retained from all chains