An attempt to unify some population growth models from first principles
In this work, some phenomenological growth models based only on the population information (macroscopic level) are deduced in an intuitive way. These models, for instance Verhulst, Gompertz and Bertalanffy-Richards models, are introduced in such a way that all the parameters involved have a physical...
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Language: | Portuguese |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Física
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Series: | Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-11172017000100411&lng=en&tlng=en |