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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 11.
Published in final edited form as: Regul Toxicol Pharmacol. 2013 Feb 27;66(1):47–58. doi: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2013.02.003

Table 3.

Comparisons of deterministic model predictions and experimental data.

Location US data UK data


Tissue (n) Lung (120) Lymph node (54) Lung (514) Lymph node (115)




Pop. Group Pop. Group Pop. Group Pop. Group
Bias (mg) (% of average experimental value) −2831 (21%) −1675 (12%) 9 (0.64%) −138 (8.9%) −811 (5.5%) −1299 (13%) −24 (1.0%) 54 (2.4%)
Square root of MSE (mg) (% of average experimental value) 8764 (64%) 8563 (63%) 1219 (78%) 1193 (77%) 10951 (74%) 10985 (74%) 1369 (60%) 1400 (61%)
Fold error: geometric mean 1.8 1.7 2.0 2.0 1.9 1.9 1.7 1.7
Fold error: median 1.7 1.7 1.8 1.7 1.7 1.6 1.5 1.6
Fold error: % < 3 95% 90% 85% 81% 85% 84% 89% 89%
Fold error: percent < 10 100% 100% 98% 98% 97% 97% 97% 98%
Fold error: maximum 5.1 4.6 17 16 44 48 11 10