cellVolumeDist-package
(Package: cellVolumeDist) :
Functions to fit cell volume distributions and thereby estimate cell growth rates and division times
This package implements a methodology for using cell volume distributions to estimate cell growth rates and division times that is described in the paper entitled "Cell Volume Distributions Reveal Cell Growth Rates and Division Times", by Michael Halter, John T. Elliott, Joseph B. Hubbard, Alessandro Tona and Anne L. Plant, which is in press in the Journal of Theoretical Biology. In order to reproduce the analysis used to obtain Table 1 in the paper, execute the command example(fitVolDist).
This is an implementation of a model for the distribution of cell volumes that constitutes Equation 7 in the paper listed in the references. It evaluates volEq7 at a vector of volume (μ m^3) values.
fitVolDist
(Package: cellVolumeDist) :
Fit a model for cell volume distribution under least squares criteria.
This function fits a model for cell volume distribution under least squares criteria; free model parameters are the cell growth rate r (μ m^3/h), the variability in cell growth rate sigma_r (μ m^3/h) and a linear scaling factor A.
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