Table 5.

Bootstrapped summary statistics for model comparisons of male and female growth curves using the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC)

Sex	Growth function	Residual df	Residual deviance	ΔAIC	Weight
Female	von Bertalanffy	444	11.26	0	1
	Gompertz	444	12.39	42.65	0
	Logistic	444	13.32	75.03	0
Males	von Bertalanffy	143	5.97	0	1
	Gompertz	143	6.90	22.13	0
	Logistic	143	7.66	37.67	0

Note: Three different growth functions were compared by separately fitting models to the same 20 independent samplings of male and female datasets from ‘observed-age’ turtles.