A "close-to-linear" nonlinear regression model, first described by Ratkowsky (1990), is a model that produces parameters having properties similar to those produced by a linear regression model. That ...

Data in statistical practice often consist of nonnegative measurements that exhibit positive skewness. The inverse Gaussian (IG) family of distributions provides a versatile and flexible model for ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. We report on a simulation study of increasing and stable populations working under two different hypotheses of density dependence of ...