Unravelling the temporal association between lameness and body condition score in dairy cattle using a multistate modelling approach

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 370-377

  Lim, P Y ^a,b   Huxley, J N ^a   Willshire, J A ^c   Green, M J ^a   Othman, A R ^b   Kaler, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^c ENDELL VETERINARY GROUP   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body condition score; Dairy cow; Discrete time event history model; Lameness; Multilevel multistate model; Transitions

Indexed keywords

BOS;

ANIMAL; BODY CONSTITUTION; BOVINE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; LACTATION; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; PARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; TIME;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; LACTATION; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; PARITY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; TIME;

EID: 84923082115     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2014.12.015     Document Type: Article

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