Joint modelling of repeated measurements and event time: Application to performance traits and survival of lambs bred in sub-humid tropics

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 175-197

  Nguti, Rosemary ^a,c   Burzykowski, Tomasz ^b   Rowlands, John ^c   Renard, Didier ^b   Janssen, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Helminthiasis; Joint modelling; Repeated measurements; Sheep; Time to event

Indexed keywords

PARASITE RESISTANCE; SELECTIVE BREEDING; SHEEP; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEMATOCRIT; KENYA; MORTALITY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HEMATOCRIT; KENYA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 14844309691     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:2004043     Document Type: Article

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