Adjusting for Missing Data Due to Culling before Testing in Genetic Evaluations of Swine

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1794-1802

  Appel, Lieuwe J ^a   Strandberg, Erling ^a   Danell, Birgitta ^a   Lundeheim, Nils ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Augmentation; Best Linear Unbiased Prediction; Culling; Genetic improvement; Performance testing; Pigs

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SWINE;

ANIMALS; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SWINE;

EID: 0032112335     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/1998.7671794x     Document Type: Article

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