What are the units of the parameters in the power function for the length-weight relationship?

Fisheries Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 247-249

  Xiao, Yongshun ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allometry; Length weight relationships; Units of coefficients

Indexed keywords

LENGTH-WEIGHT RELATIONSHIP; MODELING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032523593     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(98)00079-4     Document Type: Article

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