Accounting for variability among individual pigs in deterministic growth models

Animal

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1265-1273

  Vautier, B ^a,b,c   Quiniou, N ^c   Van Milgen, J ^a,b   Brossard, L ^a,b  

^a PEGASE   (France)

^b AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

^c IFIP Institut du Porc   (France)

Author keywords

Flury hierarchy; growth; modeling; pig; variability

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PHENOTYPE; STATISTICS; SWINE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84880229415     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731113000554     Document Type: Article

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