Appendix 1—table 5. Validation of the cat relationships (Table 4) against rat and mouse data.

nME, normalized maximum error; nRMSE, normalized root mean square error; $r_{pred}^2$, coefficient of determination between experimental and predicted quantities; $r_{exp}^2$, coefficient of determination of the power trendline directly fitted to the experimental data.

Animal	Dataset	Reference studies	$\mathit{n}\mathit{M}\mathit{E}\mathit{}\left(\mathit{\%}\right)$	$\mathit{n}\mathit{R}\mathit{M}\mathit{S}\mathit{E}\mathit{}\left(\mathit{\%}\right)$	${\mathit{r}}_{\mathit{p}\mathit{r}\mathit{e}\mathit{d}}^2$	${\mathit{r}}_{\mathit{e}\mathit{x}\mathit{p}}^2$
Rat	$\left\{I_{th};R\right\}$	Gardiner, 1993; Bakels and Kernell, 1993; Lee and Heckman, 1998; Button et al., 2008; Turkin et al., 2010; Krutki et al., 2015	352	16	0.53	0.54
Mouse	$\left\{I_{th};R\right\}$	Delestrée et al., 2014; Martínez-Silva et al., 2018; Huh et al., 2021	385	16	0.46	0.46
	$\left\{\tau ;R\right\}$	Manuel et al., 2009	1219	168	0.35	0.40
	$\left\{C;R\right\}$	Manuel et al., 2009	1915	98	0.38	0.38