Table 3 Candidate model set for Cox proportional hazards regressions fit to time-to-event data from acoustic-tagged juvenile cisco in Keuka Lake, New York, USA.

From: Whole-lake acoustic telemetry to evaluate survival of stocked juvenile fish

Cox model structure

k

AICc

ΔAICc

AICc Wt.

Log-likelihood

Cum. Wt.

Age

1

1753.95

0.00

0.42

− 875.96

0.42

Year + age

2

1755.81

1.87

0.16

− 875.88

0.58

Age + Condition

2

1755.98

2.03

0.15

− 875.96

0.73

Length + length:age

2

1756.96

3.01

0.09

− 876.45

0.82

Year + age + condition

3

1757.83

3.88

0.06

− 875.86

0.88

Age + condition + condition*age

3

1758.03

4.09

0.05

− 875.96

0.93

Year + length + length:age

3

1758.62

4.67

0.04

− 876.25

0.97

Year + age + condition + condition*age

4

1759.83

5.89

0.02

− 875.82

1.00

Year + mass + mass:age

3

1764.01

10.06

 < 0.01

− 878.95

1.00

Mass + mass:age

2

1766.23

12.29

 < 0.01

− 881.09

1.00

Year + length

2

1771.75

17.81

 < 0.01

− 883.85

1.00

Length

1

1771.98

18.03

 < 0.01

− 884.98

1.00

Year + mass

2

1784.79

30.84

 < 0.01

− 890.36

1.00

Mass

1

1788.94

34.99

 < 0.01

− 893.46

1.00

Condition

1

1817.95

64.00

 < 0.01

− 907.96

1.00

Year + condition

2

1818.03

64.08

 < 0.01

− 906.99

1.00

Year

1

1830.01

76.06

 < 0.01

− 914.00

1.00

  1. Multimodel inference is based on Akaike’s Information Criterion adjusted for small sample sizes (AICc).