Exploration of lagged relationships between mastitis and milk yield in dairy cows using a Bayesian structural equation Gaussian-threshold model

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 333-357

  Wu, Xiao Lin ^a   Heringstad, Bjørg ^b   Gianola, Daniel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Mastitis; Milk yield; Structural equation model; Threshold model

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; CATTLE; DAIRY FARMING; EQUATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAUSSIAN METHOD; LACTATION; MILK PRODUCTION; MODELING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GENETICS; LACTATION; MILK; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SECRETION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; LACTATION; LINEAR MODELS; MARKOV CHAINS; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

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EID: 46749131900     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: 12979686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:2008009     Document Type: Article

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