Discriminating between true-positive and false-positive clinical mastitis alerts from automatic milking systems

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2559-2568

  Steeneveld, W ^a   van der Gaag, L C ^a   Ouweltjes, W ^b   Mollenhorst, H ^a   Hogeveen, H ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automatic milking; Clinical mastitis; Dairy cow; Detection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BOVINE MASTITIS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LACTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; LACTATION; MASTITIS, BOVINE; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

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EID: 77952977303     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2009-3020     Document Type: Article

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