Comparison of growth curve models in partridge

Comparison of Different Lactation Curve Models to Describe Lactation Curve in Moroccan Holstein-Friesian Dairy Cows

In this study, the incomplete gamma function, an exponential function, a mixed-log function and a polynomial function were evaluated to describe the lactation curve in Moroccan Holstein-Friesian dairy cows. Data from 1990 to 1999, comprising 77130 monthly milk yields of 6029 dairy cows in 280 dairy herds, were used. Edits were carried out by considering the lactation length (5 d and

Latent Growth Curve Models

Growth curve mixture models

doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-0829.2012.06.009 Division of Biostatistics, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA *Correspondence: [email protected] Psychiatric studies often collect longitudinal data to characterize the natural history of disease in a cohort or to evaluate the effect of behavioral or pharmaceutical interventions. For example, in a recent partially ra...

comparison of catalytic activity of heteropoly compounds in the synthesis of bis(indolyl)alkanes.

heteropoly acids (hpa) and their salts have advantages as catalysts which make them both economically and environmentally attractive, strong br?nsted acidity, exhibiting fast reversible multi-electron redox transformations under rather mild conditions, very high solubility in polar solvents, fairly high thermal stability in the solid states, and efficient oxidizing ability, so that they are imp...

Determination of the genetic and non-genetic variations in growth curve of Zandi lambs by random regression models

The aim of this study was to model the variances and covariances of body weight in Zandi sheep from 60 to 365 days of age using random regression models (RRM). Legendre polynomials of different orders were used to model the direct and maternal covariances. Mean trends were also modeled through a quadratic regression on orthogonal polynomials of age. Homogeneity and heterogeneity of the residual...