1. General Model Information

Name: Model choice from a clan of monotonically increasing or decreasing functions

Acronym: GROW

Main medium: terrestrial
Main subject: biogeochemistry
Organization level:
Type of model: not specified
Main application:
Keywords: model choice, parameter estimation, experimental design, plant, animal, dynamical processes

Contact:

Prof. Dr. D.A.M.K. Rasch
Wageningen Agricultural University
Dept. Mathematics
P.O.Box 8003
6700 EB Wageningen
THE NETHERLANDSPhone: +31.8370.83551/84085
Fax : +31.8370.83554
email: rasch@rcl.wau.nl

Author(s):

Abstract:

GROW is part of a user-friendly dialogue system CADEMO. It consists of three parts: (1) Model choice: By help of a set of data one out of ten models can be selected which fits best with the data. The user can choose one of the criteria: - residual variance - Akaike criterium - Mallows criterium - Schwartz criterium The three latter contain a penality function for the number of parameters in the model. (2) Parameter estimation and analysis. By help of the data the model parameters can be estimated (point and interval estimation). Hyited. (3) Experimental design. The sample size needed for a needed precision and an optimal allocation of future measurements can be obtained. The optimal allocation may be due to one of the optimality criteria: - minimum size of a confidence region - minimum variance of the estimate of one of the parameters.

Author of the abstract:
CAMASE Register of Agro-ecosystems Models

II. Technical Information

II.1 Executables:

Operating System(s): IBM compatible PC

II.2 Source-code:

Programming Language(s): MS-DOS, from 1994 MS-DOS-Windows

II.3 Manuals:

II.4 Data:

III. Mathematical Information

III.1 Mathematics

III.2 Quantities

III.2.1 Input

III.2.2 Output

IV. References

Rasch, D., V. Guiard & G. Nurnberg, 1992.
Statistische Versuchsplanung: Einfuhrung in die Methoden und Anwendung des Dialogsystems CADEMO.
Fischer, Stuttgart. 386 pp.

1993. CADEMO-manual

V. Further information in the World-Wide-Web

VI. Additional remarks

Last review of this document by: 26.May 1997
Status of the document:
last modified by Joachim Benz Mon Jul 2 18:31:37 CEST 2007