Table 2. Optimal parameters for selected models.

Model	Comment*	a	b	m0	p	q	SSE
Bertalanffy	First (a, b given)	2/3	1	203.8	11.2	0.86	23,709
Logistic	First (a, b given)	1	2	301.716	0.528051	0.000253611	72,283
Optimal	Third (a optimized)	0.686028	= a	175.67	21.3148	2.76054	21,286

Note:

^*First and third refer to the initial and final rounds of optimization.