Research Article

Modeling the Combined Effects of Temperature, pH, and Sodium Chloride and Sodium Lactate Concentrations on the Growth Rate of Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC 8014

Table 5

Analysis of variance (ANOVA) of the predictive model obtained for growth rate according to the CCRD.

Source of variationsSum of squaresDfMean square test value

Regression0.00772660.00128837.88<0.00001
Residual0.000646190.000034
Total0.00837225

Degree of freedom. test is the calculated value. Determination coefficient = 92.28%; = 2.11 (tabulated).