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Index independent experimental vials by

r

, write

N_{r}

for the observed total eaten and

E_{r}

for the number of other-species eggs eaten. The grouped-binomial logistic regression uses

E_{r} ∣ N_{r} \sim Bin (N_{r}, p_{r}), logit (p_{r}) = lo g \frac{p _{r}}{1 - p _{r}} = β_{0} + d_{D_{r}} + s_{S_{r}}, d_{1} = 0, s_{A} = 0.

Here

D_{r} \in {1, 2, 3}

and

S_{r} \in {A, B, C}

identify day and adult species, and the free effects are

β_{0}, d_{2}, d_{3}, s_{B}, s_{C}

. There is no day-species interaction. The weights in the binomial generalized linear model are the denominators

N_{r}

, so fitting the proportions

E_{r} / N_{r}

gives this binomial likelihood, not 23 Bernoulli observations. The dispersion is fixed at one. This is a model for the composition of eggs eaten conditional on the total, rather than a model for the total appetite.

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