Table 4 Accuracy of prediction of the model developed from the present study compared with models from the literature

Eqn. no.	r	RMSPE	pRMSPE	Source
1	0.880	38.62	0.159	Heinrichs et al. (1992)
2	0.879	35.81	0.148	Msangi et al. (1999)
3	0.879	59.66	0.245	Yan et al. (2009)
4	0.876	28.86	0.119	Lesosky et al. (2012)
5	0.879	55.56	0.229	Ozkaya and Bozkurt (2009)
6	0.879	69.25	0.285	Ozkaya and Bozkurt (2009)
7	0.879	38.50	0.159	Kashoma et al. (2011)
8	0.879	25.42	0.105	Present study
9	0.874	42.5	0.17	Common weighing band

r correlation coefficient, RMSPE root mean-square prediction error, pRMSPE root mean-square prediction error as a proportion of the overall mean LW