Technical note: How to use Winbugs to draw inferences in animal models

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1363-1368

  Damgaard, L H ^a,b  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Genetics; Winbugs

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BAYES THEOREM; BREEDING; MODELS, GENETIC; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34249844086     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/jas.2006-543     Document Type: Article

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