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| Authors: | Surajit Ghosh Dastidar |
| Title: | [download] (1231)Gompertz: A Scilab Program for Estimating Gompertz Curve Using Gauss-Newton Method of Least Squares |
| Reference: | Vol. 15, Issue 12, Apr 2006 Submitted 2005-08-29, Accepted 2006-04-13 |
| Type: | Article |
| Abstract: | A computer program for estimating Gompertz curve using Gauss-Newton method of least squares is described in detail. It is based on the estimation technique proposed in Reddy (1985). The program is developed using Scilab (version 3.1.1), a freely available scientific software package that can be downloaded from http://www.scilab.org/. Data is to be fed into the program from an external disk file which should be in Microsoft Excel format. The output will contain sample size, tolerance limit, a list of initial as well as the final estimate of the parameters, standard errors, value of Gauss-Normal equations namely GN1 GN2 and GN3, No. of iterations, variance(σ2), Durbin-Watson statistic, goodness of fit measures such as R2, D value, covariance matrix and residuals. It also displays a graphical output of the estimated curve vis a vis the observed curve. It is an improved version of the program proposed in Dastidar (2005). |
| Paper: | [download] (1231)Gompertz: A Scilab Program for Estimating Gompertz Curve Using Gauss-Newton Method of Least Squares (application/pdf, 354.2 KB) |
| Supplements: | [download] (195)Gompertz.sce: Program code (text/plain, 9.9 KB) |
| Resources: | BibTeX | OAI |