Optimal design for early-generation plant-breeding trials with unreplicated or partially replicated test lines

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 461-480

  Clarke, G Peter Y ^a   Stefanova, Katia T ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Error degrees of freedom; Expected genetic gain; Fixed and random effects; Optimal design; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868621558     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: 1467842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2011.00642.x     Document Type: Article

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