A comparison of methods to calculate a total merit index using stochastic simulation

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Pfeiffer, Christina ^a   Fuerst Waltl, Birgit ^a   Schwarzenbacher, Hermann ^b   Steininger, Franz ^b   Fuerst, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b ZucbtData EDV Dienstleistungen GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; CROP YIELD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SELECTIVE BREEDING; STOCHASTICITY;

AUSTRALIA; GERMANY; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALIA; BOS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4;

ANIMAL; BOVINE; BREEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; MARKOV CHAIN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84928617704     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: 12979686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12711-015-0118-4     Document Type: Article

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