The Gompertz Curve as a Growth Curve
- 1 January 1932
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 18 (1) , 1-8
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.18.1.1
Abstract
The properties of the equationare examined with reference to its use as[image] descriptive of growth. The curve is sigmoid, with asymptotes y=0 and k, and a single inflection when y = k/e. It may be expected to give good graduations to material showing an inflection at 35 to 40% of the maximum size; but there is no reason to expect that it will have any wider range of fitting power than the logistic (auto-catalytic) curve. It may be generalized in the same way that Pearl and Reed have generalized the logistic.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- On the Summation of Logistic CurvesJournal of the Royal Statistical Society, 1927
- On the Rate of Growth of the Population of the United States since 1790 and Its Mathematical RepresentationProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1920