Comparison of logistic and neural network models to fit to the egg production curve of White Leghorn hens

Poultry Science

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 705-711

  Savegnago, R P ^a   Nunes, B N ^a   Caetano, S L ^a   Ferraudo, A S ^a   Schmidt, G S ^b   Ledur, M C ^b   Munari, D P ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Egg production; Logistic; Multilayer perceptron; Neural network; Radial basis function

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79951760631     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: 15253171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3382/ps.2010-00723     Document Type: Article

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