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Published in final edited form as: Bull Math Biol. 2008 Jul 22;70(6):1749–1771. doi: 10.1007/s11538-008-9323-4

Table 6.

Numerical sensitivity analysis by simulation studies. The average relative error (ARE) is calculated based on 1,000 simulation runs; 1000 simulated replicates are used for each simulation run

Error level (%)	Sensitivity	ρ (%)	ρ_m (%)	ρ_w (%)	ρ_mw (%)	k_m (%)	k_w (%)	k_R (%)	q_m (%)	q_w (%)
0	ARE	0.002	0.017	0.034	0.400	0.003	0.004	0.026	0.003	0.009
0	sign change	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	ARE	1.1	10.8	39.0	555.7	2.9	4.6	28.3	4.2	12.0
5	sign change	0	0	3	50	0	0	0	0	0
30	ARE	6.5	49.1	201.4	2062.0	12.7	23.1	106.0	21.29	59.1
30	sign change	0	10	43	53	0	0	0	0	0
Sensitivity rank		9	5	2	1	8	6	3	7	4