the logistic, gompertz, richards and asymmetric logistic growth curve models were fitted to body weight data of local ghanaian chickens and french sasso t44 chickens. all four growth models provided good fit for each sex by genotype growth data with r2 values ranging from 86.7% to 96.7%. the rate constant parameter, k, ranged between 0.137 and 0.271 and were significantly different from zero fo...

In a regression model, the joint distribution for each finite sample of units is determined by a function px.y/ depending only on the list of covariate values xD .x.u1/,. . .,x.un// on the sampled units. No random sampling of units is involved. In biological work, random sampling is frequently unavoidable, in which case the joint distribution p.y,x/ depends on the sampling scheme. Regression mo...

The diffusive logistic growth model with time delay and feedback control is considered. First, the well-posedness and permanence of solutions are discussed by using some comparison techniques. Then, the sufficient conditions for stability of nonnegative constant steady states are established, and the occurrence of Hopf bifurcation at positive steady state is performed. Next, the bifurcation pro...

In this paper, we modify the traditional trigram model by using utterance-level semantic coherence features in an exponential model. The semantic coherence features are collected by measuring the correlations among content-word pairs occurring in sentences of two corpora , the real corpus and a corpus generated by the baseline trigram model. The measure we use for estimating the semantic associ...

A variety of growth curves have been developed to model both unpredated, intraspecific population dynamics and more general biological growth. Most predictive models are shown to be based on variations of the classical Verhulst logistic growth equation. We review and compare several such models and analyse properties of interest for these. We also identify and detail several associated limitati...