A Bootstrap Approach to Confidence Regions for Genetic Parameters from Method R Estimates

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2263-2271

  Reverter, A ^a   Kaiser, C J ^a   Mallinckrodt, C H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal Models; Heritability

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032150064     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/1998.7692263x     Document Type: Article

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