A mixed effects model for overdispersed count data in animal breeding

Biometrics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 265-279

  Tempelman, Robert J ^a,c   Gianola, Daniel ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal breeding; Counts; Generalized linear mixed model; Negative binomial; Variance components

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL BREEDING; ANIMAL MODEL; COUNT; GENERALIZED LINEAR MIXED MODELS; GENETIC VARIANCE; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; MIXED EFFECTS MODELS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; VARIANCE COMPONENTS;

ANIMALS;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; DAIRY PRODUCT; DATA ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030003478     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533161     Document Type: Article

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