A comprehensive review of history and use of variance components with special reference to animal breeding

Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 343-351

  Firat, M Ziya ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance method; Bayesian method; Maximum likelihood; Variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030520781     PISSN: 13000128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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