Relationships between milk yield and somatic cell score in Canadian Holsteins from simultaneous and recursive random regression models

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1216-1233

  Jamrozik, J ^a   Bohmanova, J ^a   Schaeffer, L R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Milk yield; Random regression; Somatic cell score; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANADA; CATTLE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; LACTATION; MILK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SECRETION;

ANIMALS; CANADA; CATTLE; FEMALE; LACTATION; MILK; MODELS, GENETIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77949277618     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2009-2585     Document Type: Article

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