where a is a constant.The parameters a, b, c, d, and e were estimated using nonlinearregression to minimize the sum of the squares of errors between theobserved and predicted data. The results are presented in Table 6.The narrow confidence interval for the parameter a indicates themodel is very effective at predicting the correlation between load-ing rate and Pmax. Similarly, the narrow confidence interval for theparameter e indicates the model is very effective at predicting thecorrelation between temperature and the rate of lactate