The contribution of each driver of variation can be interpreted based on the fraction of total variation it explains. Thus the fraction of variance due to variation across individuals is 24\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document} $$\begin{array}{@{}rcl@{}} \sigma^{2}_{Individual}/\sigma^{2}_{Total}, \end{array} $$ \end{document}σIndividual2/σTotal2,