Kasvumallit
Kasvumallit is a Finnish term meaning growth models. It refers to mathematical representations used to describe how a quantity grows over time. The term is used across disciplines such as biology, ecology, agriculture, oncology, and economics to model population sizes, biomass, tumor volume, crop yield, or other size-like variables. Kasvumallit typically describe the evolution of a state variable N(t) with time, using equations that encode how growth responds to resource limits, crowding, or other drivers. Parameters are estimated from data to summarize growth rate, carrying capacity, and other properties of the system.
Common forms include exponential growth, logistic growth, and more flexible variants such as Gompertz, Richards, and
Applications of Kasvumallit include forecasting population dynamics, planning in forestry and agriculture, understanding tumor progression, and