Estimating variance components for test day milk records by restricted maximum likelihood with a random regression animal model

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-63

  Olori, V E ^a   Hill, W G ^a   McGuirk, B J ^b   Brotherstone, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Genus Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Covariance function; Dairy cattle; Random regression; REML; Test day records

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032887618     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-6226(99)00052-4     Document Type: Article

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