Advances in Growth Curve Models

Advances in Growth Curve Models: Topics from the Indian Statistical Institute (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics)

Advances in Growth Curve Models: Topics from the Indian Statistical Institute is developed from the Indian Statistical Institute’s A National Conference on Growth Curve Models. This conference took place between March 28-30, 2012 in Giridih, Jharkhand, India. Jharkhand is a tribal area. Advances in Growth Curve Models: Topics from the Indian Statistical Institute shares the work of researchers in growth models used in multiple fields.  A growth curve is an empirical model of the evolution of a quantity over time. Case studies and theoretical findings, important applications in everything from health care to population projection, form the basis of this volume. Growth curves in longitudinal studies are widely used in many disciplines including: Biology, Population studies, Economics, Biological Sciences, SQC, Sociology, Nano-biotechnology, and Fluid mechanics. Some included reports are research topics that have just been developed, whereas others present advances in existing literature. Both included tools and techniques will assist students and researchers in their future work. Also included is a discussion of future applications of growth curve models.

Table of Contents

1 Yam Growth Experiment and Above-Ground Biomass as Possible Predictor
2 Some Statistical Perspectives of GrowthModels in Health Care Plans
3 Testing of Growth Curves with Cubic Smoothing Splines
4 Nonuniform Rates of Convergence to Normality for Two-Sample U-Statistics in Non IID Case with Applications
5 Correlated Bivariate Linear Growth Models: Optimal Designs for Slope Parameter Estimation
6 Optimal-Time Harvest of Elephant Foot Yam and Related Theoretical Issues
7 Evolution of Scour and Velocity Fluctuations Due to Turbulence Around Cylinders
8 South Pole Ozone Pro?le and Lower Tolerance Limit
9 A New Technique for Estimating Population Distribution of Growth Curve Parameters with Longitudinal and Cross-sectional Data
10 Tuber Crop Growth and ParetoModel
11 Effect of Past Demographic Events on the mtDNA Diversity Among the Adi Tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, India
12 Growth Curve Model in Relation to Extremal Processes Based on Stationary Random Variables
13 Projection of Indian Population by Using Leslie Matrix with Changing Age Specific Mortality Rate, Age Specic Fertility Rate and Age Specific Marital Fertility Rate
14 Growth Curve Analysis of Cumulative Automobile Defects
15 Growth and Nutritional Status of Pre-School Children: A Comparative Study of Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal