1. In this paper it is assumed that the digestible amino acid content of a feedstuff is a valid estimate of the bioavailability of amino acids, since databases on bioavailability are currently too limited in size for the type of calculations presented.
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4. Explained variation is the ability to correctly predict a parameter in a sample not used to generate a regression equation, expressed as an r2 value.
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