Modeling Isothermal and Nonisothermal Microbial Growth Using a Generalized Logistic (Verhulst) Model in Excel*

For more information see: Peleg, M. 2006. Advanced quantitative microbiology for food and biosystems: Models for predicting growth and inactivation. CRC Press, Boca Raton FL. (Click to download a 452K PDF file containing contents description.)


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Generation of Isothermal microbial growth curves using a generalized logistic (Verhulst) model: IsothermGenLogistic.html


Generation of Non-isothermal microbial growth curves using a generalized logistic (Verhulst) model: NonIsothermGenLogistic.html


Generation of Isothermal microbial growth curves using a generalized logistic (Verhulst) Growth Ratio model: IsothermGenLogisticGR.html


Generation of Non-isothermal microbial growth curves using a generalized logistic (Verhulst) Growth Ratio model: NonIsothermGenLogisticGR.html



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