Broken Biological Size Relationships: A Truncated Semiparametric Regression Approach with Measurement Error
生物尺寸关系的断裂:含测量误差的截断半参数回归
Biological size relationships (i.e., regression of one size variable on another) are typically monotone but often break down at extreme values of the variables. Here we study the way in which a plant's biomass is apportioned to reproductive and other life activities. Working with a theory proposed by Weiner (1988) based an analogy between a biological plant and an industrial plant leads to a truncated regression model formulation. We consider a dataset involving 542…