
162 Modeling and Inverse Problems in the Presence of Uncertainty
with individuals in the same subpopulation if they possess the same weight
depe ndent growth rate.
Many inverse pro ble ms , such as those discussed in the earlier pa rt of this
monograph, invo lve individual dynamics and individual data. For example,
if one had individual longitudinal data y
ij
corresponding to the structured
population density v(t
i
, ξ
j
; g), where v is the solution to (5.2), correspond-
ing to an (individual) c ohort o f shr imp all with the same individual growth
rate
dξ
dt
= g(t, ξ), one could then fo rmulate a standard ordinary least squares
(OLS) problem for estimatio