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Illustration of the method proposed to define the cycle number (N*) at which the response stabilizes becoming repeatable over a range of cycles ΔNs. The method is based on the intersection of the 95% confidence band with the plateau line. Two representative cases of growth (a) and decay (b) tendencies are illustrated for the CCP and RCP protocol, respectively, as examples of the two different cases of intersection.
