Table 4.

Descriptive statistics of calibration and validation datasets

	Calibration datasets (158 samples)			Validation datasets (40 samples)
Components	Mean (g/kg DM)	SD	Range (Min–Max)	Mean (g/kg DM)	SD	Range (Min–Max)
Feces chemical components
OM	712	194.5	241–838	733	186.5	223–836
CP	169	55.7	57–271	169	54.2	52–260
GE	16	4.4	6–20	17	4.2	5–19
FAT	72	21.4	30 –117	71	19.7	26 –109
Apparent total-tract digestibility
dOM1	67	23.1	12–89	66	21.6	23–88
dCP2	78	4.0	68–89	78	3.1	73–85
dGE3	82	6.8	66–96	80	6.7	71–95
dFAT4	74	13.2	42–94	71	12.8	50–95

¹dOM = Apparent total-tract digestibility of OM.

²dCP = Apparent total-tract digestibility of CP.

³dGE = Apparent total-tract digestibility of GE.

⁴dFat = Apparent total-tract digestibility of fat.