Bebbington, M.; Lai, C. D.; Zitikis, R. - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 36 (2009) 2, pp. 121-133
A large number of methods for modeling lactation curves have been proposed - parametric and nonparametric, mathematically or biologically oriented. The most popular of these are methods that express the milk yield in terms of time via a parametric nonlinear functional equation. This is intuitive...