While the Gompertz function was selected as the best fit for use with this data set, it is suggested that future studies use the selection process described herein to determine the most appropriate function.
To select the most appropriate function, we minimised the Akaike information criterion (AIC).
The most appropriate function was chosen by minimising Akaike's information criterion (AIC) (Yamaoka et al, 1978).
There is little information to guide which is the most appropriate function, such that Wang (2012) recently synthesised six different distance-decay functions to be effective [ 36].
In more realistic simulations and in experimental data sets there is forgetting, and the power function is then the most appropriate function to estimate the retention function (Rubin & Wenzel, 1996).
As can be seen from Figure 3, the both stages of thermal degradation strongly depends from the values of n and are characterized with different most appropriate mechanism functions.
Parametric and structural optimization for feed-forward neural networks are performed determining the optimum number of hidden layers and hidden neurons, the optimum weights and the most appropriate activation functions for the hidden and output layers.
One of the main topics of debate in vulnerability evaluation of structures is selecting the most appropriate damage functions for a special structure to show a structural situation more realistically (Foutch and Yun 2002; Kalkan and Kunnath 2007; Gerami and Sivandi-Pour 2008; Nethercot 2011).
Moreover, as the first estimation phase (flux estimation) depends only on the assumption of the topology of the metabolic network, the flux estimates can subsequently be used to guide the selection of the most appropriate flux functions for the second phase or to detect inconsistencies in the assumed topology of the network separately from the flux equations [ 14].
Studying the magnitude of health impacts from LFS presents several technical challenges, including estimation of the exposure to smoke-specific PM for each spatial unit of analysis, selection of the most appropriate concentration response functions, and consideration of what theoretic minimum (counterfactual) exposure values to apply.
