Table 3.
Model | Family | Sampling Window (min) | Resample Function | Correlation at lag 1 | Degrees of freedom | F-statistic | p value of smoother |
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ODBA ~ s(Time of Day) | Gaussian | 5 | Mean | 0.736 | 4.137 | 2.182 | 0.0006 |
ODBA ~ s(Temperature) | Gaussian | 5 | Mean | 0.954 | 3.243 | 3.396 | 0.0108 |
ODBA ~ s(Depth) | Gaussian | 5 | Mean | 0.731 | 6.217 | 6.895 | < 0.0001 |
All GAMMs were performed on nighttime hours only (local sunset to sunrise) and included individual as a random factor. Significant fits are shown in bold; note that p-values of smoothers in GAM models fitted with mgcv are considered significant when p < 0.01 (Wood 2006). The correlation at lag 1 was determined by an autocorrelation function (ACF) and was included in the model to specify the autocorrelation term. Degrees of freedom are estimated by the mgcv package in R