2.4. Statistical analysis
2. Materials and methods The non-linear regression was computed with the
Splus software (AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray
2.1. Organism and culture conditions Hill, NJ, USA), the parameters of the regression
were estimated by the maximum likelihood method.
The organism used in this study was The Gauss–Marquardt algorithm was used in the
Chryseomonas luteola isolated from endives in the numerical process. The linear regression was com-
Laboratoire de Microbiologie du Froid of the Institut puted with the general linear model procedure of
Universitaire et Technologique of Evreux (France). SAS software (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA).