TABLE 1.
Hormone | Urine samples | Unique IDs | Chimp half-years | Half-years per ID | Samples per ID per half-year ave. (min-max) | Ave. hormone values per half-year‡ (min-max) | CV | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DHEAS | F | 756 | 31 | 203 | 6.55 (1–12) | 3.61 (1–20) | 185.98 ng/ml (0.84–2,635.10) | 7.4%, 12.5%† |
M | 629 | 22 | 181 | 8.23 (2–16) | 3.60 (1–17) | 170.43 ng/ml (0.90–1,401.63) | ||
CORTISOL | F | 6,476 | 45 | 363 | 9.37 (1–33) | 17.84 (3–111) | 34.93 ng/ml (0.08–1,562.27) | 6.0% |
M | 6,250 | 23 | 302 | 13.36 (1–28) | 20.74 (3–95) | 43.60 ng/ml (0.13–1,087.36) |
Abbreviations: CV, cortisol value; DHEAS, dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate.
CV for high concentration samples (>40 ng/ml) and low concentration samples (<40 ng/ml), respectively.
Average untransformed half-year values of each hormone corrected for specific gravity, cortisol values have not been corrected for time of day.