1. Experimental design and estimation of growth rate distributions in size-structured shrimp populations.
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H T Banks, Jimena L Davis, Stacey L Ernstberger, Shuhua Hu, Elena Artimovich, and Arun K Dhar
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ANIMAL population estimates ,SHRIMPS ,EXPERIMENTAL design ,INVERSE problems ,DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory) ,POPULATION dynamics ,MATHEMATICAL models - Abstract
We discuss inverse problem results for problems involving the estimation of probability distributions using aggregate data for growth in populations. We begin with a mathematical model describing variability in the early growth process of size-structured shrimp populations and discuss a computational methodology for the design of experiments to validate the model and estimate the growth-rate distributions in shrimp populations. Parameter-estimation findings using experimental data from experiments so designed for shrimp populations cultivated at Advanced BioNutrition Corporation are presented, illustrating the usefulness of mathematical and statistical modeling in understanding the uncertainty in the growth dynamics of such populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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