Effect of box-cox transformation on genetic parameter estimation in layers

Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 249-255

  Ünver, Yakut ^a   Akbaş, Yavuz ^a   Oǧuz, Ismail ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformation; Correlations; Egg production; Heritability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EGG PRODUCTION; EMBRYO; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HERITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RECORDING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 2342478388     PISSN: 13000128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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