Full sib pens of pigs are not suitable to identify variance component of associative effect: A simulation study using Gibbs Sampling

BMC Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Cheng, Jiqiu ^a   Janssens, Steven ^a   Buys, Nadine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BREEDING; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; PIG FARMING; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; PROBABILITY; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BREEDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; SWINE;

EID: 65549122482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-10-9     Document Type: Article

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