Non-normality of egg production distributions in poultry and the effects of outlier elimination and transformation on size and curvilinearity of heritability

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-85

  Koerhuis, Alfons N M ^a,b  

^a Ross Breeders Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Curvilinear heritability; Egg production; Heritability estimation; Non normality; Outlier; Poultry

Indexed keywords

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0001985104     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-6226(95)00086-0     Document Type: Article

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