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Gompertz curve

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Gompertz curve [′gäm‚pərts ‚kərv]
(statistics)
A curve similar to the exponential curve except that the constantais raised to thebxpower instead of thexpower; used in fitting a trend line to a nonlinear time series.


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The Gompertz curve predicted initial exponential growth, starting from very small increments for the smallest abalone and reaching a maximum and tailing off as initial length increases.
An S-shaped Gompertz curve (33)--in which the decrease is slow initially, accelerates, and slows down again, trending to a stable level--best illustrates the past trends in H.
 
 
 
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