The analysis of crop variety evaluation data in Australia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 129-145

  Smith, Alison ^a   Cullis, Brian ^a   Gilmour, Arthur ^b  

^a NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

BLUP; Crop variety evaluation; Mixed model; Residual maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035645784     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00163     Document Type: Article

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