Accounting for herd, year and season effects in genetic evaluations of dairy cattle: A review

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 191-203

  Van Bebber, J ^a   Reinsch, N ^a   Junge, W ^a   Kalm, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Bias; BLUP; Group size; Kalman filter; Level shifts; Prediction error variance

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0001686704     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-6226(97)00058-4     Document Type: Review

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