Better estimates of genetic covariance matrices by "bending" using penalized maximum likelihood

Genetics

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1097-1110

  Meyer, Karin ^a   Kirkpatrick, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BEEF CATTLE; CENTRAL TENDENCY BIAS; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC COVARIANCE MATRIX; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC COVARIANCE MATRIX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING ERROR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; MALE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 78349236236     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.113381     Document Type: Article

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