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Recent developments for making gastric evacuation and daily ration determinations

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Gastric evacuation rate estimates often suffer from an important bias caused by fitting experimentally-derived data distributions that are inherently constricted by the X-axis (Y = 0). Monte Carlo simulations were used to evaluate the bias. Truncating constricted distributions prior to curve fitting was suggested as a means to circumvent the problem. A food consumption model developed by D.S. Robson was presented. It employs the integral of the function fit to percentage gastric evacuation data, and does not require an a priori assumption of exponential gastric evacuation. The methods were illustrated using experimental gastric evacuation data and stomach contents data for fishery-caught yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares.

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Olson, R.J., Mullen, A.J. Recent developments for making gastric evacuation and daily ration determinations. Environ Biol Fish 16, 183–191 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00005170

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