A statistical method for the analysis of nonlinear temperature time series from compost

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1886-1895

  Yu, Shouhai ^a   Clark, O Grant ^a   Leonard, Jerry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Composting; Nonlinear; Statistical comparison; Temperature; Time

Indexed keywords

COMPOSTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL EFFECTS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EXTRA-SUM-OF-SQUARES METHOD; GOMPERTZ FUNCTION;

WASTE TREATMENT;

COMPOSTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL EFFECTS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WASTE TREATMENT;

COMPOST; COMPOSTING; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPOST; EXTRA SUM OF SQUARES METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MODIFIED GOMPERTZ FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NONLINEAR TEMPERATURE TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAS SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHMS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CARBON; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 37649000323     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2007.03.061     Document Type: Article

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