To establish an appropriate baseline for the paraconductivity, we have tried various power-law extrapolations using the temperature range 1.4 T c T2T c to establish fitting parameters for the extrapolation.

To date, these parameters have been used as "fitting parameters" where the model works back from measured thermal data to obtain a reasonable simulated thermal field.

However, computing the likelihood function (needed for fitting parameters or making other kinds of inferences) is complicated by the censoring.

If the contour length of the polymer is known, the only fitting parameter is the persistence length.

As we know k* is a function of free fitting parameter and the contact resonances.

The data field was limited and the models had many adjustable parameters, or else fitting parameters had values that were subject to wide uncertainty: it was possible to choose values that could suit any model.

An incorrect set of fitting parameters results in wild predictions for devices that were not part of the originally fitted data set.

Note that apart from that, there were no free fitting parameters entering the theory.

A theoretical expression for this spectrum is derived in the following, which can then be fitted to the experimental curve in order to obtain the force exerted by the magnets on the bead as a fitting parameter.

It is only through a combination of this knowledge that one can arrive at sophisticated many-body theories that can be directly compared with experiment without any fitting parameters.