“…A metric-specific hypersurface over the hyperplane spanned by the normalized parameters was fitted by means of second-order polynomial with first-order interactions, reading mathematically as ( Tinsson, 2011 ): where x i , with i = 1, 2, 3, refers to the normalized parameters according to Eq. 47 , Y is one of the five previously cited output metrics of the model, β 0 covers the portion of the metric Y which is not depending on x 1 , x 2 , and/or x 3 ; and where β i , β ij , and β ii , with i , j = 1, 2, 3, reflect the sensitivity of the model with respect to the parameters x 1 , x 2 , and x 3 .…”