TABLE 7.

Goodness of fit of the new primary model to curves without shoulders but having pronounced tails: effect of truncating tail region

Reference	Microorganism(s)	Substrate	Pressure (MPa)	Time course	Original model		Constrained tail model
					MSE	R2	MSE	R2
Hauben et al. (13)	E. coli strains	Bis-Tris-HCl buffer	300	120	3.41	0.47	0.92	0.82
	300	120	1.50	0.71	0.16	0.96
	270	120	0.94	0.81	0.33	0.92
	600	60	0.44	0.87	0.12	0.96
	600	60	1.88	0.69	0.80	0.85
	600	60	3.26	0.64	0.13	0.98
	400	60	2.74	0.63	0.20	0.96
	400	60	1.55	0.79	0.45	0.93
Simpson and Gilmour (35)	L. monocytogenes	PBS added with glucose	375	30	0.37	0.85	0.14	0.90
Patterson et al. (25)	E. coli 0157:H7	UHT-treated milka	700	30	0.04	0.87	0.02	0.96
Benito et al. (2)	E. coli 0157:H7	PBS	500	30	0.80	0.81	0.24	0.96
Masschalk et al. (17)	E. coli M91655	PBS	250	60	0.10	0.89	0.01	0.92
Kalchayanand et al. (16)	L. monocytogenes Scott A	Peptone water	207		0.23	0.86	0.01	0.89
Schreck et al. (34)	E. coli	Culture medium	250	40	1.26	0.82	0.34	0.95
Casadei et al. (3)	E. coli NCTC 8164	PBS	200	0-12	0.40	0.79	0.19	0.90
	200	0-20	0.41	0.86	0.11	0.97
	400	0-16	1.01	0.83	0.83	0.87
	400	0-12	1.87	0.82	0.91	0.92
Smelt et al. (36)	L. monocytogenes	Phosphate buffer	400	0-40	0.99	0.87	0.27	0.96
	450	0-20	1.99	0.77	0.44	0.96

^aUHT, ultra-high temperature.