Comparison of best performing models explaining trends in wolf depredation on bear-hunting dogs in the Wisconsin and Michigan, USA, by Akaike’s information criterion & weight.

*Encounter = the ratio of bear hunting permits sold per wolf (see methods). Numbers in parenthesis under explanatory factors are p-values for the five best-performing models.
aAICC is Akaike’s information criterion, corrected for small sample size.
bΔAICC is AICC for the model of interest minus the smallest AICC for the set of models being considered. We only considered models with ΔAICC ≤2.
cW is the Akaike’s weight of each model. The ratio of one model’s weight to another estimates how many times more support the data provide for that model over the other.