Modelling the growth curve of Maine-Anjou beef cattle using heteroskedastic random coefficients models

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 423-445

  Robert Granié, Christèle ^a   Heude, Barbara ^a   Foulley, Jean Louis ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

EM REML; Growth curve; Heteroskedastic random coefficient model; Maine Anjou breed; Robust estimators

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; GROWTH CURVE;

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEEF CATTLE; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CATTLE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH CURVE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; POPULATION GENETICS; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TWINS; WEIGHT;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOS;

EID: 0036656210     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:2002016     Document Type: Article

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