Number of inseminations to conception in holstein cows using censored records and time-dependent covariates

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3655-3662

  Gonzalez Recio O ^a   Chang, Y M ^b   Gianola, D ^b   Weigel, K A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertility; Ordinal censored threshold model; Sequential threshold model; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744474112     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(05)73051-4     Document Type: Article

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