Uncertainty in allometric exponent estimation: a case study in scaling metabolic rate with body mass

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2007.07.003MaRDI QIDQ2216283zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dafeng Hui, Robert B. Jackson

Publication date 15 December 2020

Published in Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.07.003

zbMATH Keywords

body massmeasurement errormetabolic rateregression analysissampling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Biophysics (92C05) Physiology (general) (92C30)

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