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Table 1 Binomial GLM for the proportion of marine trips, against the interaction between chick age, sex of the individual and period of the week

From: Time and energy costs of different foraging choices in an avian generalist species

Dependent variable

Factor

Estimated marginal mean or coefficient ± s.e.

χ2(1)

P

Proportion of marine trips

Chick age

0.6

0.454

Chick age x sex

0.01

0.929

Chick age x weekend

5.4

0.020

Sex

Female

 

8.2

0.004

Male

 

Weekend

Working day

 

36.2

< 0.001

Weekend

 

Sex x weekend

11.0

0.001

Female

Working day

0.17 ± 0.06

Weekend

0.03 ± 0.01

Male

Working day

0.42 ± 0.1

Weekend

0.18 ± 0.06

Chick age x sex x weekend

5.9

0.015

Female

Working day

−0.001 ± 0.001

Weekend

0.001 ± 0.001

Male

Working day

−0.002 ± 0.002

Weekend

−0.004 ± 0.003

  1. Estimate values are back-transformed from the logit scale. Estimated marginal means are the estimated mean for a factor level or a factor level combination. Output of the corresponding analyses of deviance for the significance of the model terms
  2. s.e., standard error