The ARM+LSQ analysis suggests that three components are appropriate for parameterizing these synthesized noisy data. For the case of three components, the starting parameter values in the MC calculations were taken from the ARM+LSQ analysis. Local minima for four-and five-component cases are not available from the methods applied to noisy data because the additional components are oscillatory and unphysical. Initial guesses were therefore taken from analysis of the decay curve prior to adding noise, and these parameters were used as starting values in Monte Carlo analysis of the noisy data. This allows exploration of situations where, by hypothesis or inspiration, values of parameters beyond those available from ARM+LSQ are considered.