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Advances in Growth Curve and Structural Equation Modeling: Topics from the Indian Statistical Institute on the 125th Birth Anniversary of PC Mahalanobis

This book describes recent trends in growth curve modelling research in various subject areas, both theoretical and applied. It explains and explores the growth curve model as a valuable tool for gaining insights into several research topics of interest to academics and practitioners alike. The book’s primary goal is to disseminate applications of the growth curve model to real-world problems, and to address related theoretical issues. The book will be of interest to a broad readership: for applied statisticians, it illustrates the importance of growth curve modelling as applied to actual field data; for more theoretically inclined statisticians, it highlights a number of theoretical issues that warrant further investigation.

Copyright: 2018

ISBN: 9789811318436

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Advances in Growth Curve and Structural Equation Modeling: Topics from the Indian Statistical Institute—Proceedings 2017

by Ratan Dasgupta

This book explains and explores the growth curve model as a tool to gain insights into various research topics of interest to academics and practitioners alike. It includes studies on growth models for repeated measurement mixture experiments, and optimal designs for growth prediction in order to find an optimum design for the most efficient estimation of the parameters of the mixture models. It presents longitudinal studies conducted on the mathematical aptitude and intelligence quotient of tribal population in North Eastern states of India, and innovative statistical analysis showing that the status of tribes is improving over time. These results are supplemented by similar cross- sectional studies, and a retrospective longitudinal study of the social environment in North Eastern tribes indicating that the growth status of the social environment is improving. Child health is an important topic in developing countries, and as such the book features an overview of the growth and nutritional status of children aged 5 to 18 in India. Characterization of Extended Uniform Distribution and its applications for quality control in industrial production, and in yield data of tuber crops among others are discussed. Characterizations of distribution in terms of performance rate are also proved. There is also a contribution examining the past and present status of mangroves in Sunderban region of the Indian state of West Bengal from an ecological viewpoint using a growth curve model set-up. Lastly, it includes a chapter on a statistical study of platelet size decomposition and related growth model. Highlighting the importance of growth curve modelling as it applies to actual field data and encouraging more theoretically inclined statisticians to look into theoretical issues that need investigation, the book disseminates applications of the growth curve model to real-world problems and addresses related theoretical issues for the attention of theoreticians and practitioners.

Copyright: 2018

ISBN: 9789811309809

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Advances in Growth Regulation of Fruit Crops

by Vishal Singh Rana Neerja Rana Sunny Sharma

Life science has experienced a unique level of growth and development in recent times, as has the area of fruit crop regulation. Hence, the authors have been inspired to write this book entitled Advances in Growth Regulation of Fruit Crops. There are limited books with advanced knowledge on the growth and development of fruit crops, and therefore, there is a need for greater information to be made available about basic and advanced concepts of growth and regulation vis-a-vis fruit development. Growth regulation of fruit crops is a multifaceted and dynamic subject that requires simplified form so that the students pursuing UG (B.Sc) in Horticulture or Life Sciences or PG (M.Sc. and Doctorate) in Fruit Science or Pomology can understand the concepts easily. Our primary target is to upgrade students' knowledge base by providing the latest information to researchers. We hope it will help further knowledge about advances in the growth regulation of fruit crops. This book has been designed with the dual purpose of being a text cum reference. This book contains 20 crucial topics, including an introduction to the growth and development of fruit crops; eco-physiological influences on the growth and development of fruit crops – flowering and fruit set; phloem transport: source and sink; crop load and assimilate partitioning and distribution; root and canopy regulation of fruit crops; plant growth regulators – structure, biosynthesis and mode of action; plant growth inhibitors and growth retardants – metabolic and morphogenetic effects; absorption, translocation and degradation of phytohormones; growth manipulation through canopy architecture; growth regulation aspects of propagation; embryogenesis; seed and bud dormancy; physiology of flowering; regulation of flowering and off-season production; flower drop and thinning; fruit set and development; fruit drop and parthenocarpy; pre-harvest factors affecting post-harvest fruit quality; fruit maturity, ripening and storage; and molecular approaches in crop growth regulation.In a nutshell, this book is written with the objective of scientific appraisal of the advances in the growth and development of fruit crops.

Copyright: 2025

ISBN: 9781040323212

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