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Jon S. Horne and Edward O. Garton. 2006. Selecting the best home range model: an information-theoretic approach. Ecology 87:1146–1152.

Appendix B. Percentage of 100 replicate samples for which each home range model was a competing best model (i.e., DCVC or DAICc < 3).

 

Sample Size

 

30

50

100

200

True distribution

Model

AICc

CVC

 AICc

CVC

AICc

CVC

 AICc

CVC

Unimode bivariate normal

CU

28

19

5

7

1

1

0

0

BVN*

97

79

96

82

97

94

100

98

2CN

15

79

17

70

17

34

5

3

2BVN

0

2

2

14

6

10

4

13

Bimodal bivariate normal mix

CU

51

27

13

11

0

0

0

0

BVN

93

29

48

15

2

2

0

0

2CN

32

68

21

45

2

3

0

0

2BVN*

20

33

79

75

99

99

100

100



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