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Table 3 Estimates and standard errors of the population norm coefficients by weather variable

From: Growth resilience to weather variation in commercial free-ranging chickens in Ethiopia

 

a0 (SE)

a1 (SE)

a2 (SE)

Weekly mean

Maximum daily temperature

10.25 (0.44)

7.46 (0.41)

-0.27 (0.28)

Minimum daily temperature

13.75 (0.41)

1.60 (0.28)

-0.61 (0.21)

Average daily temperature

12.51 (0.45)

1.84 (0.25)

1.05 (0.30)

Average daily humidity

12.10 (0.43)

-2.92 (0.40)

-5.10 (0.35)

Average daily THI

13.27 (0.46)

1.78 (0.24)

-0.31 (0.34)

Average daily precipitation

8.24 (1.04)

-5.92 (0.61)

0.51 (0.43)

Weekly variance

Maximum daily temperature

14.01 (0.41)

-1.17 (0.28)

-2.87 (0.22)

Minimum daily temperature

14.45 (0.40)

-1.19 (0.25)

3.39 (0.21)

Average daily temperature

14.58 (0.42)

-0.91 (0.29)

-1.38 (0.25)

Average daily humidity

14.17 (0.38)

-1.69 (0.25)

1.01 (0.21)

Average daily THI

14.74 (0.43)

-1.05 (0.29)

-1.44 (0.26)

Average daily precipitation

13.26 (0.59)

-2.78 (0.29)

-1.39 (0.29)

  1. ao, a1, a2 refer to the intercept, linear, and quadratic terms, respectively