Selecting linear-score distributions for modelling milk-culture results

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 11-29

  Allore, H G ^a   Wilson, D J ^b   Erb, H N ^b   Oltenacu, P A ^a  

^a Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cow; Mastitis; Probability distributions; Somatic cell count

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CELL COUNT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DAIRYING; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL COUNT; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DAIRYING; FEMALE; LACTATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEW YORK; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0031613597     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(97)00066-4     Document Type: Article

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