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Sorghumheight: Modeling sorghum plant growth

Description

It is generally believed that a sigmoidal model is good for describing growth of plant height. In the present data set we have growth records for two varieties of sorghum- a cereal crop in western India. It is of interest to check if the model parameters for two varieties are equal.

Usage

data(Sorghumheight)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 22 observations on the following 3 variables.
Day
Age (days from sowing)
Ramkel
Plant Height (Variety 1)
Saoner
Plant Height (Variety 2)

Source

http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/nvjoshi/statspunedatabook/databook.html

Details

Non-linear regression and LR-test need to performed for this data set.