Table 1. Comparison of the goodness of fit for different growth curves of body weight in brown frogs.
| Criterion/model | Age 1 | Age 2 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RMSE | DW | AIC | BIC | RMSE | DW | AIC | BIC | |
| Logistic | 0.577 | 0.525 | 1,256.063 | 1,274.980 | 2.678 | 0.533 | 3,850.184 | 3,870.923 |
| Gompertz | 0.584 | 0.517 | 1,271.963 | 1,290.280 | 2.705 | 0.526 | 3,866.584 | 3,885.322 |
| Von Bertalanffy | 0.587 | 0.512 | 1,281.243 | 1,299.560 | 2.729 | 0.518 | 3,880.586 | 3,899.324 |
| Brody | 0.598 | 0.497 | 1,307.812 | 1,326.129 | 2.808 | 0.493 | 3,926.194 | 3,944.933 |
| Richards | 0.575 | 0.527 | 1,251.942 | 1,274.838 | 2.679 | 0.533 | 3,851.877 | 3,875.300 |
| Janoschek | 0.599 | 0.482 | 1,310.328 | 1,328.645 | 2.710 | 0.523 | 3,869.361 | 3,888.100 |
| Linear | 0.609 | 0.487 | 1,332.386 | 1,346.124 | 2.955 | 0.449 | 4,007.023 | 4,021.077 |
| Polynomials, second order | 0.596 | 0.499 | 1,302.462 | 1,320.779 | 2.783 | 0.499 | 3,911.700 | 3,930.438 |
| Polynomials, third order | 0.575 | 0.524 | 1,251.922 | 1,274.818 | 2.715 | 0.513 | 3,873.511 | 3,896.934 |
| Polynomials, fourth order | 0.576 | 0.525 | 1,253.712 | 1,281.187 | 2.660 | 0.545 | 3,841.885 | 3,869.992 |