Examples of predictive power.

<p>Representative examples of the forecast performances of the models for the lung data set (mouse number 2). Five data points were used to estimate the animal parameters and predict future growth. Prediction success of the models are reported for the next day data point (OK₁) or global future curve (OK_glob), based on the criterion of a normalized error smaller than 3 (meaning that the model prediction is within 3 standard deviations of the measurement error) for OK₁ and the median of this metric over the future curve for OK_glob (see <a href="http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003800#s2" target="_blank">Materials and Methods</a> for details).