Approximation of Estimates of (Co)variance Components with Multiple-Trait Restricted Maximum Likelihood by Multiple Diagonalization for More Than One Random Effect

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 1862-1872

  Misztal, I ^a   Weigel, K ^b   Lawlor, T J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Holstein Association USA   (United States)

Author keywords

canonical transformation; CT; derivative free; DF; DG; diagonalizable; diagonalization algorithm; EM; expectation maximization; MD; MT; multiple diagonalization; multiple trait; ND; nondiagonalizable; restricted maximum likelihood; variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 21844501533     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(95)76811-4     Document Type: Article

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