Heritability of age-at-onset of bone spavin in Icelandic horses estimated by survival analysis

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 79, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 285-293

  Arnason Th ^a   Bjornsdottir S ^b  

^a Intl Horse Breeding Consultant   (Sweden)

^b HÓLAR UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Double censoring; Heritability; Horse; Spavin; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0037305810     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-6226(02)00174-4     Document Type: Article

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