Planned unbalanced designs for estimation of quantitative genetic parameters. I: Two-way matings

Biometrics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 56-70

  Shen, Pao Sheng ^a   Cornelius, P L ^b   Anderson, R L ^c  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c Southcreek Park ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Additive genetic variance; Asymptotic variances; Dominance variance; Genetic gain; Genetic variance components; Heritability; Iterated least squares; Maximum likelihood; Two way classification; Unbalanced designs

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ADDITIVE GENETIC VARIANCE; ASYMPTOTIC VARIANCE; DOMINANCE VARIANCE; GENETIC GAIN; GENETIC VARIANCE; GENETIC VARIANCE COMPONENTS; HERITABILITY; ITERATED LEAST SQUARE; LEAST SQUARE; MA XIMUM LIKELIHOODS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; TWO WAYS; TWO-WAY CLASSIFICATION; UNBALANCED DESIGN;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATING; POPULATION; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; SIMULATION;

EID: 0030003461     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533144     Document Type: Article

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