This dependence can be reduced by decreasing the degrees of freedom during the minimisation procedure. It is proposed here to use a combination of model-free and model- based kinetics to achieve this. Model-free and model-based kinetics have been used complementarily in previous studies. Khawam and Flanagan modelled the desolvation of drug solvates using model- based kinetics employing various reaction models. For every reaction model the activation energy and pre-exponential factor were estimated. Then, the best reaction model was defined as that which accompanied an E with a value closest to the E determined using a model-free isoconversional method. Chrissafis studied the thermal degradation of poly(ethylene adipate) also using the two kinetic procedures complementarily. Again, the best reaction model was chosen based on the agreement between the activa- tion energies predicted by the two different kinetic procedures. Thus, as both the limitations of the separate usage of model-based kinetics have been recognised and the complementary usage of model-based and model-free kinetics have been explored, these two types of kinetics have not yet been integrated.