Direct and competition additive effects in tree breeding: Bayesian estimation from an individual tree mixed model

Silvae Genetica

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 45-56

  Cappa, Eduardo Pablo ^a,b   Cantet, R J C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b ANPCyT   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Additive and direct competition effects; Competition effects; Estimation of additive (co)variances; Gibbs sampling; Individual tree mixed model

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; COMPETITION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; FOOD ADDITIVES; FORESTRY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; LABELING; LABELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MODAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STANDARDIZATION; STANDARDS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE;

ADDITIVE EFFECTS; BAYESIAN ESTIMATIONS; BAYESIAN METHODS; BREAST HEIGHT; COMPETITIVE EFFECTS; CONVERGENCE (MATHEMATICS); DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; ESTIMATED PARAMETERS; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (EM) ALGORITHMS; FIXED EFFECTS; GIBBS SAMPLING; INCIDENCE MATRICES; INDIVIDUAL TREES; INVERSE FUNCTIONS; MIXED LINEAR MODEL; MIXED MODEL (MM); MODEL ACCOUNTS; PHENOTYPIC VARIANCE; RESTRICTED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; TREE BREEDING;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; FORESTRY;

ADDITIVES; COMPETITION; ESTIMATION; FOOD ADDITIVES; FORESTRY; LABELING; LABELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STANDARDS;

ANIMALIA; PINUS TAEDA;

ADDITIVE AND DIRECT COMPETITION EFFECTS; ADDITIVE EFFECTS; BAYESIAN ESTIMATIONS; COMPETITION EFFECTS; COMPETITIVE EFFECTS; ESTIMATION OF ADDITIVE (CO)VARIANCES; GIBBS SAMPLING; INDIVIDUAL TREE MIXED MODEL; INDIVIDUAL TREE MODEL; TREE BREEDING;

EID: 46449088518     PISSN: 00375349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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