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Activity Number:
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180
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 4, 2008 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Risk Analysis
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| Abstract - #301562 |
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Title:
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Estimating Daily Growth Estimates of Ride Tide Algae
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Author(s):
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Susan J. Simmons*+ and Alaina Houmard
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Companies:
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The University of North Carolina, Wilmington and The University of North Carolina, Wilmington
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Address:
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Wilmington, NC, 28411,
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Keywords:
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Growth curve ; Weibull growth curve
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Abstract:
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For many years, Marine scientists have estimated growth of algae by simply looking at the linear portion of the growth curve. This method produces unreliable results that can dramatically change depending on the portion designated as linear. In this talk, we introduce a more reliable method using estimates from the entire growth curve. The delta method is used to estimate the variance of this new estimator and results from a simulation study will be shown.
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