Estimating genetic covariance functions assuming a parametric correlation structure for environmental effects

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 557-585

  Meyer, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Correlation function; Estimation; Random regression model; REML; Repeated records

Indexed keywords

GENETICS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CATTLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CATTLE; ENVIRONMENT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STATISTICS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS); VETERINARY MEDICINE;

EID: 0035543432     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:2001102     Document Type: Article

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