Development of a Stochastic Pig Compositional Growth Model

Professional Animal Scientist

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 255-260

  Schinckel, A P ^a   Li, N ^a   Preckel, P V ^a   Einstein, M E ^a   Miller, D ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mixed Effects Model; Nonlinear Growth Functions; Stochastic Model; Swine

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008210878     PISSN: 10807446     EISSN: 1525318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15232/S1080-7446(15)31414-5     Document Type: Article

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