Estimation of farm specific parameters in a longitudinal model for litter size with variance components and random dropout

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 77, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 175-185

  Toft, Nils ^a   Jørgensen, Erik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Decision support; Litter sizes; Management information systems; Maximum likelihood; Maximum posterior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036853038     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-6226(02)00061-1     Document Type: Article

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