Fitting Time Series Models to Fisheries Data to Ascertain Age

Table 1

Combination of all possible methods used to test the unobserved component models (UCMs).

	Level	Slope	Cycle	Season
Model 1	Stochastic	Stochastic	Stochastic	Stochastic
Model 2	Stochastic	Stochastic	—	Stochastic
Model 3	Stochastic	Fixed	Stochastic	Stochastic
Model 4	Stochastic	—	Stochastic	Stochastic
Model 5	Stochastic	Fixed	—	Stochastic
Model 6	Stochastic	—	—	Stochastic