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Table 2 The effect of collar size and weight on measured VeDBA, including the relationship between speed and goat ID as a fixed factor

From: Best practice for collar deployment of tri-axial accelerometers on a terrestrial quadruped to provide accurate measurement of body acceleration

Candidate models and variables retained

df

logLik

AICc

ΔAIC

Weight

1. Effect of collar size and weight on VeDBA

 CS*CW+CS*Sp+CW*Sp+Gt

32

1105.9

2142.7

0.00

0.522

 CS*CW + CS*Sp + CW*Sp + Gt*Sp

35

1109.4

− 2142.5

0.18

0.477

2. VeDBA measured by the harness

 CS+CW+Gt+Sp

14

977.59

− 1926.2

0.00

0.437

 CS * Sp + CW + Gt

18

981.38

− 1925.1

1.06

0.257

 CS * Sp + CW + Gt

22

984.92

− 1923.4

2.79

0.108

 CS * Sp + CW * Sp + Gt

18

980.25

− 1922.9

3.33

0.083

 CS + CW + Gt * Sp

17

978.64

− 1921.8

4.36

0.049

 CS * Sp + CW + Gt * Sp

21

982.69

− 1921.2

5.03

0.035

3. Difference between collar and harness

 CS*CW+CS*Sp+CW*Sp+Gt*Sp

35

1092.1

2108.0

0.00

0.969

  1. Summaries of selected models for each with the AIC-best model are shown in italic. The fixed variables included in each model are collar size (CS), collar weight (CW), speed (Sp) and goat ID (Gt)