A diffusion process to model generalized von Bertalanffy growth patterns: Fitting to real data

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 263, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-69

  Román Román, Patricia ^a   Romero, Desirée ^a   Torres Ruiz, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diffusion process; Stochastic growth; Von Bertalanffy curve

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISH; GROWTH CURVE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCHASTICITY; VON BERTALANFFY EQUATION;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY GROWTH; BODY WEIGHT; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FISH; GROWTH CURVE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; XIPHIAS GLADIUS;

EID: 77649337641     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.12.009     Document Type: Article

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