Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 71 - 81
(March 2010)
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HETEROSCEDASTIC VON BERTALANFFY GROWTH MODEL AND AN APPLICATION TO A KUBBARD FEMALE CHICKEN CORPOREAL WEIGHT GROWTH DATA
Carlos Alberto Ribeiro Diniz, Lia Hanna Martins Morita and Francisco Louzada-Neto
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Abstract: In this paper, we propose a heteroscedastic von Bertalanffy growth model considering a heteroscedastic dispersion matrix. Maximum likelihhod estimation procedure is addressed. The methodology is illustrated on a real Kubbard female chicken corporeal weight dataset. |
Keywords and phrases: growth models, multiplicative heteroscedasticity, maximum likelihood. |
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