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Impact of Red Fox Predation on the Sex Ratio of Prairie Mallards

Table 20: Parameters of Distributions Used to Generate Random Variates


Table 20. Parameters of distributions used to generate random variates for use in the predictive model. Parameter values correspond to the standard situation, Case I.
Variable
Mean
Standard deviation
Correlation
PM
200,000
50,000
r5
0.16
0.01
0.60
r6
0.10
0.01
r9
0.145
0.03
0.60
r10
0.177
0.03
r11
0.040
0.01
0.60
r12
0.042
0.01

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