A unified approach to the Richards-model family for use in growth analyses: Why we need only two model forms

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 267, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 417-425

  Tjørve, Even ^a   Tjørve, Kathleen M C ^a  

^a INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bertalanffy model; Generalization; Growth model; Logistic model; Parameterization

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH RATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

AGE; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BIRTH; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; GERMINATION; GOMPERTZ MODEL; GROWTH ACCELERATION; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RICHARDS MODEL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS; VON BERTALANFFY MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROWTH; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS;

EID: 77958151641     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.09.008     Document Type: Article

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