Table 2.

Fruit scale: root mean square errors (RMSE)

Tree	Fruit no.	Fruit STAR	RMSE (°C)*
			Ttopf	Tcentref	Tbottomf	Mean
A	1	0·342	2·263	1·347	0·933	1·515
	2	0·282	2·149	1·502	1·254	1·635
	3	0·296	2·397	1·360	1·011	1·589
	4	0·276	2·150	1·541	1·128	1·606
	5	0·15	2·489	1·613	0·976	1·693
	6	0·191	1·620	1·142	1·057	1·273
	7	0·131	2·229	1·252	0·973	1·485
	8	0·103	1·187	2·214	2·086	1·829
	9	0·019	0·648	0·996	0·910	0·851
	10	0·039	2·175	1·504	1·197	1·625
	11	0·053	1·466	0·788	0·781	1·012
	12	0·058	0·756	0·537	0·694	0·662
D	1	0·442	2·314	1·234	0·939	1·495
	2	0·389	1·287	1·381	0·929	1·199
	3	0·338	1·629	1·666	1·272	1·522
	4	0·296	2·857	1·552	0·961	1·790
	5	0·187	2·283	1·432	1·192	1·636
	6	0·175	2·136	2·318	1·402	1·952
	7	0·198	2·554	1·460	0·979	1·664
	8	0·065	1·647	1·389	1·225	1·420
	9	0·305	2·680	2·199	1·333	2·071
	10	0·121	1·568	0·806	0·951	1·108
	11	0·072	1·213	0·794	0·747	0·918
	12	0·046	1·084	0·795	1·091	0·990
Y	1	0·312	1·957	1·870	1·344	1·724
	2	0·318	1·246	1·044	0·984	1·091
	3	0·273	1·680	1·655	1·591	1·642
	4	0·235	1·580	1·154	1·128	1·287
	5	0·125	1·484	1·992	1·582	1·686
	6	0·206	1·423	1·920	2·105	1·816
	7	0·118	2·454	1·558	1·125	1·712
	8	0·176	1·786	2·661	2·284	2·243
	9	0·042	1·258	0·875	0·965	1·033
	10	0·042	1·424	1·113	1·070	1·202
	11	0·07	1·234	0·603	0·641	0·826
	12	0·083	1·119	0·587	0·600	0·769
Mean value			1·762	1·385	1·151	1·433

* All regression lines were significant (P-value < 0·00001).