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Crucial sets of observables and functional equations associated with some widely used growth laws
doi: 10.1007/BF03046692pmid: N/A
The relations between a theory and theobservables (as distinguished fromreasonable assumptions) are briefly reviewed (appropriate to the context) and differentcrucial sets of observables are obtained for four extensively used growth laws restricted to arbitrary time intervals. Monotonic solutions of certain functional equations of intrinsic mathematical interest are incidentally characterised. Finally, a coordination is achieved between certain estimations which explicitly hypothesize a growth law and others which do not.