Box-Cox transformation and random regression models for fecal egg count data

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue JAN, 2012, Pages

  da Silva, Marcos Vinícius Gualberto Barbosa ^a,b   Van Tassell, Curtis P ^a,b   Sonstegard, Tad S ^b   Cobuci, Jaime Araujo ^c   Gasbarre, Louis C ^b  

^a EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bovine; Box Cox transformation; Fecal egg count; Genetic parameters; REML

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE; BOVINAE; NEMATODA;

EID: 84876068590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2011.00112     Document Type: Article

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