Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling

Table 2 Minimal sum of squares of residuals (SSR) and P values from the F test for reduction of variance for models that predict the basal metabolic rate

From: Data from necropsy studies and in vitro tissue studies lead to a model for allometric scaling of basal metabolic rate

Model	SSR	P*	SSR/n	SSR	P*	SSR/n
Kleiber's Law	18.87		0.0306	12.99		0.033
Equation (1)	16.62^†	0.057^†	0.0269^†	12.35^‡	0.28^‡	.0316^‡
Equation (4)	15.98^†	0.019^†	0.0258^†	11.26^‡	0.070^‡	.0288^‡
Equation (5)	15.90^†	0.017^†	0.0257^†	11.17^‡	0.065^‡	.0286^‡
Equation (7)	15.93^†	0.018^†	0.0257^†	11.13^‡	0.065^‡	.0280^‡

* P value for reduction of variance calculated using the F test. The variance in the numerator is the variance from the optimal fit of Kleiber's law.
^† Calculated using data from reference 11
^‡ Calculated using data from reference 10

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