How to derive biological information from the value of the normalization constant in allometric equations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Kaitaniemi, Pekka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; RANDOM ERROR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CELL FUNCTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGY; CELL PHYSIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 44849126172     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001932     Document Type: Article

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