Louzada, Francisco; Ferreira, Paulo H.; Diniz, Carlos A.R. - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 41 (2014) 8, pp. 1785-1798
In general, growth models are adjusted under the assumptions that the error terms are homoscedastic and normally distributed. However, these assumptions are often not verified in practice. In this work we propose four growth models (Morgan-Mercer-Flodin, von Bertalanffy, Gompertz, and Richards)...