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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 27.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Rev Biomed Eng. 2008 Dec 16;1(1):75–93. doi: 10.1109/RBME.2008.2008241

TABLE II.

Multitier Structure Can Reduce Total Number of Datapoints by Varying Number of Inputs and Outputs at Each Tier but Results in More Experiments Overall. See Example Calculations Using (1)

Values per Culture
Param’s Param Outputs Expts Datapoints
Single Tier
   Tier 1 5 3 15 243 3645

Multi-Tier
   Tier 1 5 3 2 243 486
   Tier 2 2 3 5 9 45
   Tier 3 1 3 15 3 45


Total 255 576