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Souza,Felipe Amorim Caetano; Fernandes,Tales Jesus; Moura,Raquel Silva de; Meirelles,Sarah Laguna Conceição; Ribeiro,Rafaela Aparecida; Cunha,Fabiana Oliveira; Muniz,Joel Augusto. |
ABSTRACT: The analysis of the growth and development of various species has been done using the growth curves of the specific animal based on non-linear models. The objective of the current study was to evaluate the fit of the Brody, Gompertz, Logistic and von Bertalanffy models to the cross-sectional data of the live weight of the MangalargaMarchador horses to identify the best model and make accurate predictions regarding the growth and maturity in the males and females of this breed. The study involved recording the weight of 214 horses, of which 94 were males and 120 were non-pregnant females, between 6 and 153 months of age. The parameters of the model were estimated by employing the method of least squares, using the iteratively regularized... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Age; Body weight; Cross-sectional method; Statistical models. |
Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782017000400657 |
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