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Published in final edited form as: J Mol Biol. 2006 Mar 30;358(4):1179–1190. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.02.075

Table 1.

Summary of RMSE values for testing of different kinetic models

	Folding Reaction	k^¥	I^¥	N^¥	RMSE of best model	RMSE 2^nd best model	RMSE 3^rd best model	% RMSE 1^st to 2^nd
A	Mg²⁺	3	2	28	0.98	2.03	2.76	107%
B	Mg²⁺	3	3	84	0.95	1.02	1.08	7.4%
C	Mg²⁺	4	3	680	1.72	1.95	2.05	13.4%
D	Mg²⁺	4	4	3060	1.69	1.72	1.73	1.8%
E	Na⁺	3	2	28	0.36	0.47	0.98	30.6%
F	Na⁺	3	3	84	0.34	0.36	0.37	5.9%

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k, I and N are the number of clusters, the number of intermediates in the model, and the total number of models tested, respectively.

Gray shading indicates best models based on Gap Statistic analysis²⁹.