Setting confidence limits to genetic parameters estimated by restricted maximum likelihood analysis of North Carolina design II experiments

Heredity

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 476-487

  Hohls, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

computer simulation; error rates; genetic variance components; narrow sense heritability; quantitative genetics; statistical software procedures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030464864     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1996.174     Document Type: Article

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