Analysis of water intake, dry matter intake and daily milk yield using different error covariance structures

Animal

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1585-1594

  Kramer, E ^a   Stamer, E ^b   Spilke, J ^c   Krieter, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b TiDa Tier und Daten GmbH   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dairy cow; Error covariance structure; Model fit

Indexed keywords

BOS;

EID: 54349101051     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731108002942     Document Type: Article

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