Table 3: Akaike weights and evidence ratios for the soil water retention models.
derivation Model
Akaike weighta
Evidence ratiob
Rank
Absent
CA
0.143
1.4
4
Measured
BC
0.015
13.2
9
VG5
0.006
35.9
10
VG4
0.018
11.4
8
TA
0.000
67, 045.1
16
RU
0.000
19, 531.6
15
Modified
BC
0.203
1.0
1
VG5
0.075
2.7
6
VG4
0.169
1.2
3
TA
0.002
85.3
12
RU
0.003
72.2
11
Estimated
BC
0.172
1.2
2
VG5
0.063
3.1
7
VG4
0.132
1.5
5
TA
0.000
10, 542.0
14
RU
0.000
5, 323.0
13
weight is based on average AIC value across all hillslope positions.
bEvidence ratio is based on from average AIC values, where model is the best-fitting model (BC model with modified ), and indexes the remaining models in the set.