Computes the Stannard growth model
$$ y(t) = \alpha \left[ 1 + exp(-(\beta + k t)/m) \right]^{-m}$$
Usage
stannard(t, alpha, beta, k, m)
stannard.inverse(x, alpha, beta, k, m)
Arguments
t
time
alpha
upper asymptote
beta
growth displacement
k
growth rate
m
slope of growth
x
size
Author
Daniel Rodriguez
References
A. Khamiz, Z. Ismail, and A. T. Muhammad, "Nonlinear growth models for
modeling oil palm yield growth," Journal of Mathematics and Statistics,
vol. 1, no. 3, p. 225, 2005.