BOD
Biochemical Oxygen Demand
The BOD
data frame has 6 rows and 2 columns giving the biochemical oxygen demand versus time in an evaluation of water quality.
Usage
BOD
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
Time
-
A numeric vector giving the time of the measurement (days).
demand
-
A numeric vector giving the biochemical oxygen demand (mg/l).
Source
Bates, D.M. and Watts, D.G. (1988), Nonlinear Regression Analysis and Its Applications, Wiley, Appendix A1.4.
Originally from Marske (1967), Biochemical Oxygen Demand Data Interpretation Using Sum of Squares Surface M.Sc. Thesis, University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Examples
require(stats) # simplest form of fitting a first-order model to these data fm1 <- nls(demand ~ A*(1-exp(-exp(lrc)*Time)), data = BOD, start = c(A = 20, lrc = log(.35))) coef(fm1) fm1 # using the plinear algorithm fm2 <- nls(demand ~ (1-exp(-exp(lrc)*Time)), data = BOD, start = c(lrc = log(.35)), algorithm = "plinear", trace = TRUE) # using a self-starting model fm3 <- nls(demand ~ SSasympOrig(Time, A, lrc), data = BOD) summary(fm3)