Build a pure-slip tire force curve with Pacejka parameters
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Course: Read the forces that steer the car
Module: Decode the tire's force language
Estimated duration: 55 minutes
This lesson is about turning tire behavior into a usable force curve. You are not trying to memorize a famous equation. You are learning how to read and build the scalar pure-slip Magic Formula so that a slip angle becomes a lateral force, a slip ratio becomes a longitudinal force, and a vertical load changes the size and shape of that response.
That distinction matters. In a vehicle model, the tire is the interface that converts vertical load at the contact patch into horizontal force. A lap simulation, a steady-state cornering calculation, or a braking estimate cannot use the words more grip as an input. It needs a rule that says, for this normal load and this slip state, the tire produces this much force. The Magic Formula is one common rule for doing that. It is empirical, not a first-principles description of the rubber, carcass, road texture, heat state, and contact patch mechanics. It is still useful because it can fit measured tire data well enough to support numerical vehicle analysis.
The core idea is simple: the tire force curve is not a straight line. Near zero slip, force rises almost linearly. As slip increases, the rise bends over. At some slip value the tire reaches a peak. Beyond the peak the curve may fall or approach a large-slip asymptote. Pacejka packages those features into a small set of shape parameters, usually described as B, C, D, and E, with optional horizontal and vertical shifts. Those letters are not magic labels. They are handles for the parts of the curve you care about when you build a tire-force map.
Use the model only inside its proper scope in this lesson. We are covering the scalar, steady-state, pure-slip model. For a pure lateral curve, the input x is slip angle and the output y becomes lateral force Fy. For a pure longitudinal curve, the input x is slip ratio and the output y becomes longitudinal force Fx. Load dependence enters through the coefficients, so the curve for 1000 N of normal load is not the same as the curve for 2000 N. Camber can also be included in the lateral coefficient set, but the clean first pass is still a pure-slip curve: one slip variable, one force output, one normal load level at a time.
The basic curve shape
A common form is y(x) = D sin(C arctan(Bx - E(Bx - arctan(Bx)))). The exact published implementation may include load-dependent coefficient equations and optional shifts, but this compact version is enough to understand what the parameters are doing.
Start at the origin. When x is very small, the curve should behave like a straight line. For the lateral-force version, that initial slope is cornering stiffness. The important point is that B by itself is not the cornering stiffness. The slope at the origin is the product BCD. That means B is a stiffness factor only after you know the peak factor D and the shape factor C. In practice, if the data or design target gives you the desired small-slip slope, and you have chosen C and D, B is the value needed to make BCD match that slope.
Now move up the curve. D is the peak factor. In the simplest reading, it sets the top of the curve: the maximum force the fitted curve is trying to represent at that load and condition. For a lateral model, D is tied to the peak lateral force. For a longitudinal model, D is tied to the peak braking or driving force. Do not confuse D with the coefficient of friction itself. If the tire makes 2730 N of longitudinal force at 2000 N of normal load, the force peak is 2730 N and the corresponding friction coefficient is 2730 divided by 2000, or 1.365. The force peak and the coefficient are related, but they are not the same object.
C is the shape factor. It changes the overall shape of the curve, including how the curve approaches its large-slip behavior relative to the peak. In practical use, C is one of the reasons two tires with the same peak force can still feel and simulate differently. One curve can build and settle differently from another even when the maximum force is similar. Some references give typical constant values when a fitted value is not available, such as about 1.30 for lateral force curves, 1.65 for longitudinal braking force curves, and 2.40 for aligning moment curves. Those are not universal tire truths. They are starting values or examples, not a substitute for fitting the tire you actually need to model.
E is the curvature factor. It shapes the transition from the near-linear region toward the peak and it affects where the peak occurs. This is the parameter that helps you avoid a curve that is technically high enough at the peak but bends there in the wrong way. If the model reaches peak force too abruptly, too late, or with the wrong shoulder, E is one of the first places you look. E can also be made dependent on the sign of slip. That matters because the tire may not behave as a perfect mirror image in driving and braking, and lateral behavior may be affected by camber.
The optional shifts are there because real tire data does not always sit neatly on a symmetric origin-centered curve. A horizontal shift Sh moves the curve left or right. A vertical shift Sv moves it up or down. Those shifts let a simple Magic Formula form account for effects such as rolling resistance, tire conicity, or other offsets that appear as a nonzero force or a displaced zero point. You should treat shifts as correction tools, not as permission to hide a bad fit. If the unshifted curve has the wrong stiffness, wrong peak, and wrong curvature, a shift will not make it a good tire model.
What the formula is actually replacing
Before formula-based tire models, one direct way to model a tire was to use measured test data and interpolate between points. For lateral force, the test can set camber angle, vertical force, and slip angle as independent variables, then measure lateral force as the dependent variable. If a simulation needs a camber angle between two measured camber settings, it can curve-fit at the bounding camber values and interpolate between them.
That interpolation approach is honest, but it has two practical problems. First, it can be computationally expensive because the simulation may need to interpolate large quantities of data at every integration step. Second, it is not very helpful for design modification or optimization. The tire must already exist and must already have been tested. If you want to study how changes in tire characteristics affect vehicle handling, you need parameters that connect the tire force curve to features such as peak force, small-slip stiffness, curvature, load dependence, and shifts. The Magic Formula is one answer to that need.
This is why you should think of the Magic Formula as a curve-fitting method with useful engineering handles. It does not claim that a tire physically contains a B part, a C part, a D part, and an E part. Some authors warn that empirical formulas do not maintain a clean one-to-one relationship between every parameter and every physical effect. That warning is healthy. You use the model because it produces realistic tire behavior and fits data well for numerical work, not because the formula is a complete microscopic theory of the contact patch.
Pure longitudinal force: slip ratio to Fx
For a longitudinal Magic Formula curve, your input is slip ratio. In braking, slip ratio is negative in many sign conventions. In acceleration, it is positive. The output is longitudinal force Fx. The coefficient set is usually named separately from the lateral set because the longitudinal curve is not just the lateral curve with a different axis label. The longitudinal version has its own coefficients, commonly shown as b0, b1, b2, and so on in Pacejka-style tables.
The workflow is: choose a normal load, choose a slip ratio, calculate the load-dependent parameters, run the Magic Formula, and get Fx. Then repeat across slip ratio to draw the curve. If you do that for multiple normal loads, you get a family of curves. That family matters because load transfer, aero load, banking, and pitch motion constantly alter the vertical load at each tire. A tire model that ignores load is not a race-car model. It is a sketch.
A Formula Ford example from the corpus gives the right mental picture. With a Pacejka longitudinal model fitted for that tire, the plotted longitudinal force curves at 1000 N, 1500 N, and 2000 N of normal load show maximum force at about 8 percent slip ratio in both braking and acceleration. At 2000 N normal load, the maximum longitudinal force is 2730 N, which corresponds to a friction coefficient of 1.365. The engineering lesson is not that every tire peaks at 8 percent. The lesson is that the model gives you a specific peak slip and a specific peak force for a specific tire and load. You can put those numbers into a braking simulation instead of hand-waving about available grip.
That example also shows why the peak cannot be reduced to one universal grip number. If the normal load changes, the peak force changes. The coefficient of friction may also change. In load-sensitive tire behavior, the global friction coefficient D divided by Fz can decrease as vertical load rises, even while the absolute force D rises. That is the central trap in casual tire talk: more vertical load can produce more force but less force per unit load.
Pure lateral force: slip angle to Fy
For a lateral Magic Formula curve, your input is slip angle and your output is lateral force Fy. The coefficient set is commonly named separately from the longitudinal set, often with a-series coefficients. The lateral model can also include camber angle relative to the ground plane, so a more complete lateral equation calculates Fy from normal load, slip angle, and camber. For a first rough model, it is common to neglect camber, pressure, temperature, and other secondary influences, but you should understand what you are leaving out.
Near zero slip angle, the first thing to check is the slope. That slope is cornering stiffness. In the Magic Formula structure, cornering stiffness is represented by BCD for the lateral-force curve. The coefficient equations can make this slope load-dependent. One published form uses a sine function of vertical load to make BCD rise to a maximum at a particular load value and then follow the measured pattern. The practical instruction is simple: do not fit only the peak. If the near-zero slope is wrong, your vehicle model will predict the wrong steering response, wrong balance feel, and wrong small-correction behavior even if the maximum lateral force looks plausible.
The lateral model is often validated by comparing force versus slip angle across several vertical loads. The corpus includes a comparison for a 195/65 R15 tire at loads such as 600 kg and 800 kg, with Magic Formula, Fiala, and interpolation curves plotted over slip angle, plus expanded near-zero-slip plots. That is the kind of check you should copy in your own work. You do not only ask whether the model reaches a believable maximum. You inspect whether it follows the measured or interpolated curve through the small-slip region, the shoulder, the peak, and the high-slip region.
Load dependence: the part beginners skip
If you only remember one advanced point from this lesson, make it this: B, C, D, and E are not necessarily constants for the whole tire. The useful tire model often makes some of them dependent on vertical load Fz, and sometimes on camber. That is not a complication added for elegance. It is required because the tire changes behavior as load changes.
The peak factor D is often written as a load-dependent peak force. One common pattern expresses D as the product of vertical load and a load-dependent friction coefficient. The global friction coefficient can decrease almost linearly with Fz, which means the tire is load sensitive. In plain paddock language, doubling the load does not necessarily double the usable force. The heavier-loaded tire usually gives more absolute force, but the added force is inefficient compared with the load increase.
The stiffness product BCD can also be load-dependent. In the lateral model tables, BCDy can be expressed with a formula that rises with Fz, reaches a maximum around a characteristic load, and changes with camber influence. Since BCDy is the cornering stiffness at the origin, this means the steering-response part of the tire curve changes with vertical load too. A model that uses one fixed small-slip slope across all loads will miss that behavior.
This is why load transfer belongs in the same conversation, even though this lesson is not teaching the full weight-transfer module. Vehicle weight is constantly transferred from one tire to another, and aerodynamic downforce varies with speed. Carroll Smith makes the tire discussion start at the contact patches because all acceleration, braking, cornering force, control reaction, and much of the driver's sensory information pass through them. A Pacejka curve is your mathematical version of that contact-patch interface. If the vertical load at a tire is wrong, the force coming out of the tire model will be wrong even if the curve-fit math is tidy.
Asymptote and the high-slip region
The high-slip part of the curve is not just decoration after the peak. Simulations can enter it during lockup, wheelspin, spins, or aggressive transient mistakes, even if this lesson is focused on steady-state curves. The Magic Formula includes a large-slip asymptotic value tied to the shape and peak parameters. This is one role of C: it helps determine how the curve settles at large slip relative to D. If you change C, you are not only changing some abstract shape number. You can also change the high-slip tail of the curve.
The curvature factor E influences the transition toward the peak and the location of the peak. It can be made sign-dependent, which lets the model create an asymmetric curve. That is useful when braking and driving sides are not identical, or when camber effects make the left and right sides of a diagram differ. The mistake is to force symmetry because it looks cleaner. The tire data should decide. If the measured braking side and driving side have different shoulders, a symmetric fit may be easy to plot but wrong to use.
How to build the curve in practice
Step one is to define the use case. Are you modeling pure braking, pure acceleration, or pure cornering? If it is pure braking or acceleration, the output is Fx and the input is slip ratio. If it is pure cornering, the output is Fy and the input is slip angle. Do not blend the axes yet. Combined slip is a separate extension.
Step two is to choose the load and condition grid. At minimum, you need normal load values across the range the tire will see. For lateral work, decide whether camber is included. If you have measured tire data, respect the test conditions: vertical force, camber angle, slip angle, pressure, temperature, and the tire itself. If you only have identified coefficients, verify what conditions those coefficients represent. A coefficient table for one tire at one pressure and construction is not a universal tire law.
Step three is to compute or assign D. D should represent the peak force level for the selected load and condition. If your model uses D = mu_p times Fz, remember that mu_p may be load-dependent. For the Formula Ford longitudinal example, at 2000 N normal load the peak longitudinal force is 2730 N. If you were fitting that point alone, D would need to support that peak force, and the implied coefficient would be 1.365. The curve for another normal load would need its own peak level.
Step four is to set C. C is the shape factor, so it affects the family resemblance of the whole curve. If you have a known fit, use it. If you are starting from a published typical value, treat it as a temporary assumption to be tested. For example, lateral force and longitudinal braking curves may use different typical C values. Do not copy a lateral shape factor into a braking model just because both are called Magic Formula.
Step five is to set the small-slip slope and solve for B. For lateral force, the target is cornering stiffness. Since the initial slope is BCD, B equals the desired initial slope divided by C times D. This one line prevents a common beginner error. If you increase D but leave B unchanged, you have also changed the origin slope because BCD changed. If you want peak grip to rise without changing the small-slip slope, B must be recalculated.
Step six is to tune E for the shoulder and peak location. Plot the curve and compare it to data. If the curve bends away from the measured points too early or too late, or the peak occurs at the wrong slip value, adjust E according to the fitting method you are using. E is not a cosmetic smoothing knob. It controls the transition from the elastic-looking build-up to the peak and high-slip behavior.
Step seven is to apply shifts only when the data calls for them. Use Sh when the measured zero point is offset horizontally. Use Sv when the force curve is offset vertically. Rolling resistance and conicity are examples of effects that can require these shifts. If you are modeling a centered, simplified tire without those offsets, leave the shifts at zero and keep the first pass clean.
Step eight is to validate against the right plots. For longitudinal work, plot Fx versus slip ratio at each normal load. For lateral work, plot Fy versus slip angle at each normal load, and zoom near zero slip to inspect the initial stiffness. Then check peak force, peak slip, curve shoulder, and high-slip trend. A model can look acceptable on a full-scale plot while being wrong near zero. That near-zero error matters because the car spends a lot of time in the region where the driver is making small steering corrections.
Worked example: Formula Ford longitudinal tire
Take the Formula Ford longitudinal example as a template for how to read a pure-slip curve. The independent variable is slip ratio. The output is longitudinal tire force Fx. The plotted loads are 1000 N, 1500 N, and 2000 N. The model predicts maximum longitudinal force at 8 percent slip ratio in braking and acceleration.
At 2000 N normal load, the maximum longitudinal force is 2730 N. Dividing force by load gives 1.365. That number is not the whole model. It is only the coefficient at that peak load and peak slip point. The full curve still tells you how force builds below 8 percent, how sharply it reaches the peak, and what happens after the peak.
If you were using this model in a straight-line braking simulation, you would not simply ask whether the tire can make 1.365 g. You would ask what slip ratio your brake system, driver, ABS logic, or tire model is operating at. If the simulated tire is at 2 percent slip, it is below the peak. If it is at 8 percent, it is at the modeled maximum. If it is far beyond the peak, the model should show whether force falls or plateaus. That is the engineering value of the curve: it gives you force as a function of slip, not only a headline grip number.
Worked example: 195/65 R15 lateral model comparison
Now use the lateral comparison for the 195/65 R15 tire as a validation example. The plotted output is lateral force and the input is slip angle. The comparison shows Magic Formula, Fiala, and interpolation models at vertical loads including 600 kg and 800 kg, with separate near-zero-slip views.
The lesson is how to inspect a lateral fit. First, look near zero slip angle. The Magic Formula should match the intended cornering stiffness, because BCD is the slope at the origin. Then look at the middle of the curve, where the tire force begins to bend away from the linear region. That is where E and C become visible. Then look near the peak and high-slip region, where D and the asymptotic behavior matter.
A full-scale plot can hide near-zero errors because the y-axis must include thousands of newtons of force. That is why the near-zero plot matters. If the slope around the origin is too steep, your simulation will make the car respond too strongly to small slip angles. If it is too shallow, the simulated car will feel lazy and may predict too much steering angle for a given lateral acceleration. The peak might still look fine, but the balance prediction will be wrong in the part of the corner where the tire is not saturated.
Calibration cues
A good pure-slip Pacejka fit has several signatures. The first is a believable origin slope. For the lateral model, BCD should match the known or estimated cornering stiffness at the relevant load. The second is a peak force that matches the measured or identified tire capability at that load. The third is a peak slip location that agrees with the data, such as the 8 percent slip ratio in the Formula Ford longitudinal example. The fourth is a curve shoulder that follows the data instead of snapping from linear build-up to peak. The fifth is a high-slip tail that does not invent force the tire never showed.
Across load, the model should show a coherent family of curves. Higher normal load should generally produce higher absolute force, but the coefficient D divided by Fz may decline as load rises. If your plotted family shows force rising exactly in proportion to load with no load sensitivity, question whether your coefficients are too simple for the use case. If the 2000 N curve is just twice the 1000 N curve in every meaningful way, you may have built a tidy math exercise rather than a tire model.
From logged data, a first-cut lateral tire model can be estimated with simplified assumptions. The corpus notes that influences such as camber, pressure, temperature, and related factors may be neglected in a rough approximation. That is acceptable only if you label it as a rough model. The calibration cue is honesty: you know what the model includes, what it omits, and which conclusions are safe. A first-cut model can support learning and rough simulation. It should not be treated like a manufacturer tire test matrix.
Common mistakes
Mistake 1: treating B as cornering stiffness. Good looks like calculating or checking BCD as the origin slope. B is called the stiffness factor, but the slope at the origin is the product BCD. If D or C changes and you want the same origin slope, B has to change.
Mistake 2: treating D as a universal grip coefficient. Good looks like separating peak force from coefficient of friction. D is the peak force factor. The coefficient is peak force divided by vertical load. Because load sensitivity can make the coefficient decline with Fz, one tire does not have one permanent friction number.
Mistake 3: fitting the peak and ignoring the shoulder. Good looks like matching the build-up region, the curvature into the peak, the peak location, and the high-slip trend. E exists because the way the curve bends matters.
Mistake 4: using one curve for every load. Good looks like plotting a family of curves at the normal loads the tire will see. The Formula Ford example uses 1000 N, 1500 N, and 2000 N. The lateral comparison uses different vertical loads. Your simulation should also respect load variation.
Mistake 5: forcing symmetry. Good looks like letting the data show whether braking and driving sides, or camber-influenced lateral sides, need asymmetry. E can be sign-dependent for this reason.
Mistake 6: using the pure-slip curve as if it were a combined-slip budget. Good looks like knowing when to stop. This lesson gives you pure Fx versus slip ratio and pure Fy versus slip angle. When the tire is braking and cornering at the same time, you need the combined-slip lesson and the grip-budget tools.
Drill: four-knob curve build
Do this as a 60-minute desk drill before you trust a tire model in a simulation. Use any available coefficient set from your project, a published example, or a deliberately simple starter set. Build two plots: Fx versus slip ratio for pure longitudinal force, and Fy versus slip angle for pure lateral force. Use at least three normal loads.
Round 1, 10 minutes: hold B, C, and E constant and change D. Write down what changes. The peak force should move. The initial slope will also change unless B is recalculated, because the slope contains BCD.
Round 2, 10 minutes: restore D, then change B while holding C, D, and E constant. The near-zero slope should change. The curve should feel more or less stiff at the origin.
Round 3, 10 minutes: restore B, then change C. Watch the general shape and the large-slip behavior. Do not only stare at the peak.
Round 4, 10 minutes: restore C, then change E. Watch the shoulder and peak location. This is the curvature lesson.
Round 5, 10 minutes: introduce load dependence. Plot three loads on the same axes and check whether peak force and origin slope change in a believable way.
Round 6, 10 minutes: write a fit audit. For each curve, record the origin slope, peak force, peak slip, and high-slip trend. The success criterion is that you can point to which parameter controls each feature and explain what would need to change if the simulated tire builds force too slowly, peaks at the wrong slip, or overpredicts force after the peak.
Where this lesson connects next
The next related skill is reading the full Magic Formula curve as a tire-force map. That is where you become fluent at looking at a plotted curve and diagnosing what it predicts for driver inputs. The combined-slip lessons extend this pure-slip foundation into the friction ellipse or traction-circle problem, where a tire cannot produce maximum braking force and maximum cornering force at the same time. Load-sensitivity lessons extend the D and BCD discussion into the broader grip budget, where weight transfer and aero load change not just how much load is on each tire, but how efficiently each tire converts that load into force.
For now, keep the boundary clear. A pure-slip Magic Formula curve is a force generator for one slip axis at a time. It is not the complete tire, not the complete car, and not a substitute for data. Used correctly, it is the bridge between measured tire behavior and analytical vehicle balance. Used casually, it becomes a fancy way to guess.
Worked example: Formula Ford longitudinal tire
Take the Formula Ford longitudinal example as a template for how to read a pure-slip curve. The independent variable is slip ratio. The output is longitudinal tire force Fx. The plotted loads are 1000 N, 1500 N, and 2000 N. The model predicts maximum longitudinal force at 8 percent slip ratio in braking and acceleration.
At 2000 N normal load, the maximum longitudinal force is 2730 N. Dividing force by load gives 1.365. That number is not the whole model. It is only the coefficient at that peak load and peak slip point. The full curve still tells you how force builds below 8 percent, how sharply it reaches the peak, and what happens after the peak.
If you were using this model in a straight-line braking simulation, you would not simply ask whether the tire can make 1.365 g. You would ask what slip ratio your brake system, driver, ABS logic, or tire model is operating at. If the simulated tire is at 2 percent slip, it is below the peak. If it is at 8 percent, it is at the modeled maximum. If it is far beyond the peak, the model should show whether force falls or plateaus. That is the engineering value of the curve: it gives you force as a function of slip, not only a headline grip number.
Worked example: 195/65 R15 lateral model comparison
Use the lateral comparison for the 195/65 R15 tire as a validation example. The plotted output is lateral force and the input is slip angle. The comparison shows Magic Formula, Fiala, and interpolation models at vertical loads including 600 kg and 800 kg, with separate near-zero-slip views.
First, look near zero slip angle. The Magic Formula should match the intended cornering stiffness, because BCD is the slope at the origin. Then look at the middle of the curve, where the tire force begins to bend away from the linear region. That is where E and C become visible. Then look near the peak and high-slip region, where D and the asymptotic behavior matter.
A full-scale plot can hide near-zero errors because the y-axis must include thousands of newtons of force. That is why the near-zero plot matters. If the slope around the origin is too steep, your simulation will make the car respond too strongly to small slip angles. If it is too shallow, the simulated car will feel lazy and may predict too much steering angle for a given lateral acceleration.
Common mistakes
Mistake 1 is treating B as cornering stiffness. Good looks like calculating or checking BCD as the origin slope. B is called the stiffness factor, but the slope at the origin is the product BCD.
Mistake 2 is treating D as a universal grip coefficient. Good looks like separating peak force from coefficient of friction. D is the peak force factor. The coefficient is peak force divided by vertical load.
Mistake 3 is fitting the peak and ignoring the shoulder. Good looks like matching the build-up region, the curvature into the peak, the peak location, and the high-slip trend.
Mistake 4 is using one curve for every load. Good looks like plotting a family of curves at the normal loads the tire will see.
Mistake 5 is forcing symmetry. Good looks like letting the data show whether braking and driving sides, or camber-influenced lateral sides, need asymmetry.
Mistake 6 is using the pure-slip curve as if it were a combined-slip budget. Good looks like knowing when to stop and moving to combined-slip modeling when the tire is braking and cornering at the same time.
Drill: four-knob curve build
Do this as a 60-minute desk drill before you trust a tire model in a simulation. Use any available coefficient set from your project, a published example, or a deliberately simple starter set. Build two plots: Fx versus slip ratio for pure longitudinal force, and Fy versus slip angle for pure lateral force. Use at least three normal loads.
Round 1, 10 minutes: hold B, C, and E constant and change D. The peak force should move. The initial slope will also change unless B is recalculated, because the slope contains BCD.
Round 2, 10 minutes: restore D, then change B while holding C, D, and E constant. The near-zero slope should change.
Round 3, 10 minutes: restore B, then change C. Watch the general shape and the large-slip behavior.
Round 4, 10 minutes: restore C, then change E. Watch the shoulder and peak location.
Round 5, 10 minutes: introduce load dependence. Plot three loads on the same axes and check whether peak force and origin slope change in a believable way.
Round 6, 10 minutes: write a fit audit. For each curve, record the origin slope, peak force, peak slip, and high-slip trend. The success criterion is that you can point to which parameter controls each feature and explain what would need to change if the simulated tire builds force too slowly, peaks at the wrong slip, or overpredicts force after the peak.
When this principle breaks down
This pure-slip Pacejka lesson stops being enough when the tire is asked for lateral and longitudinal force at the same time. The pure longitudinal curve can tell you Fx versus slip ratio. The pure lateral curve can tell you Fy versus slip angle. It does not, by itself, tell you how much lateral force remains while the tire is also braking or driving. That is the combined-slip problem covered by the next lessons in the grip-budget sequence.
It also breaks down when you treat fitted coefficients as universal. The model is empirical and only as trustworthy as the data, load range, camber range, and operating conditions behind the coefficients. If you move far outside those conditions, you are extrapolating.
Author Review
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