Table 2 Model selection for the LMMs investigating the effects of sex and age-class on for the three Principle Components (PC1-PC3)
Models | AICc | Δi | Relative likelihood | Akaike weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
PC1 | ||||
Sex + Age-class | 614.59 | 4.80 | 0.091 | 0.053 |
Sex | 611.67 | 1.89 | 0.388 | 0.227 |
Age-class | 612.69 | 2.91 | 0.234 | 0.137 |
Null | 609.78 | 0.00 | 1.000 | 0.584 |
PC2 | ||||
Sex + Age-class | 637.81 | 1.69 | 0.429 | 0.300 |
Sex | 652.81 | 16.69 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Age-class | 636.12 | 0.00 | 1.000 | 0.699 |
Null | 650.96 | 14.84 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
PC3 | ||||
Sex + Age-class | 1076.32 | 1.04 | 0.595 | 0.373 |
Sex | 1116.96 | 41.68 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Age-class | 1075.29 | 0.00 | 1.000 | 0.627 |
Null | 1118.62 | 43.34 | 0.000 | 0.000 |