Table 2.

Bayesian mixed effect model outputs to determine predictors of diet in northern gannets. The best model lent support for a Year only model; however, the second-best model was Sex + Year with a model weight of 23.1%. This model was used to predict diet of the sexes. Leave-one-out cross-validation information criteria (LOOic) were used to assessed model suitability.

model	variables	LOOic	standard error LOOic	delta LOOic	standard error delta LOOic	weight
4	Year	87.5	11.8	0	NA	0.768
6	Sex + Year	89.9	11.6	2.4	3	0.231
5	Year (by ID)	106.8	8.6	19.3	6.4	0
2	Sex	109.7	10.9	22.2	6	0
1	Null	110.7	11	23.2	5.5	0
7	ID	139.2	10	51.7	9.5	0
3	Sex (by ID)	140.4	9.9	52.9	9.9	0