Table 2. Parameters Estimated from the Simulated Data in Figure 4 by the Different Mechanistic Submodels.

model	θ1	θ2	δ1	δ2	η
true values underlying the simulated data	0.4	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.9
population heterogeneity estimates	2.15	0.23	—	—	0.19
hardening off estimates	0.60	0.23	1.56	—	—
viable-but-not-culturable estimates	0.23	—	0.37	1.56	—