On 03/04/2014 16:26, Frances Cheesman wrote:
Hi all,
I have a number of bacterial growth curves I would like to find the
equations for these and then integrate them to find the area under the
curves for me to do stats on later.
Is there any way I can do this in R?
Thanks,
Frances
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Responding to the curve fitting question and passing over the
integration issue...
It is quite common to use nls to fit equations to log(count) v time
data. You'll have to choose an appropriate model, ideally as a self
starting nls model. Of those included in the stats package you might
consider SSfpl, SSgompertz, SSlogis and SSweibull.
But choice of a model is really a microbiological issue and all those
models might be considered a little passe. Fitting this kind of
sigmoidal model can be difficult unless the data is good.
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