Reliable computing in estimation of variance components

Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 363-370

  Misztal, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computing algorithms; MCMC; REML; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; CATTLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWINE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BREEDING; CATTLE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, GENETIC; SOFTWARE; SWINE;

EID: 55949129116     PISSN: 09312668     EISSN: 14390388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0388.2008.00774.x     Document Type: Review

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