Research Article

Fitting Performance of Different Models on Loess Particle Size Distribution Curves

Table 2

Fitting parameters of G-7 by laser diffraction technique.

JakyLogarithmic

ValueMinMaxValueMinMax

a4.832 (20.97)4.3675.2970.188 (17.20)0.1660.210
b115.125 (28.46)106.948123.301
0.8550.878
-value773.289462.488
value1.0000.000
Mean square266.667225.026
Degrees of freedom4140

FredlundGompertz

ValueMinMaxValueMinMax

a0.034 (29.992)0.0310.036−0.108 (−9.141)−0.132−0.084
b2.424 (9.016)1.8792.9681.102 (89.647)1.0771.127
c1.831 (4.160)0.9402.72350.055 (60.283)48.37451.736
d3.168 (0.130)−46.32352.6590.019 (40.111)0.0180.020
1.0001.000
-value92120.8299005.573
value0.0000.000
Mean square0.5890.548
Degrees of freedom3838

(Note. Statistically significant at 0.05. Note that significance levels are one-tailed tests if matching a predicted direction and two-tailed tests otherwise. represents “model”; represents “value.” The same applies to Tables 312.)