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The DIC measures posterior predictive error by penalizing the fit of a model (deviance) by its complexity, determined by the effective number of parameters.

Superimposed on this broader environmental constraint, conifer cover displaces aspen cover and shows a positive correlation with model deviance (r = 0.344).

Second, we used likelihood-ratio tests to compare differences in the overall fit for each model versus previous models, to test for statistically significant changes in the model deviance.

Results show that model 4, the four-dimensional model (see Table 1), is superior: it has lowest AIC, AICc, and BIC values, and the likelihood-ratio tests show statistically significant improvements in model deviance compared to both of the 2-dimensional models.

Results show that model 4, the eight-dimensional model (see Table 1), is superior: it has lowest AIC, AICc, and BIC values; and likelihood-ratio tests show statistically significant improvements in model deviance compared to both of the 2-dimensional models.

P-values were adjusted for overdispersion, when present, by using an inflation factor equal to the square root of the model deviance divided by the degrees of freedom.

Based on comparison of the model deviances, the multi-level models provided a superior fit to the data compared with analogous models that ignored the survey design (villagers nested within villages).

Significance of treatment was tested by a comparison of models fitted with and without treatment with the anova command in R 2.10.0 based on model deviances (R Development Core Team 2010), GLMMs were fitted with the package lme4 (version 0.999375 32 [39]).

The model deviances, the range of bootstrapped deviances and the estimated ^c (observed deviance/expected deviance) for each species are shown in Additional file 1 a.

We identified best fitting transformations by comparison of model deviances using a χ2 distribution with 1 degree of freedom.

Residual model deviances were compared for models in which benzene exposure acted upon the first, second, third, or fourth stage of a five-stage disease process (Table 5).