Genetic and environmental smoothing of lactation curves with cubic splines.

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Most approaches to modeling lactation curves involve parametric curves with fixed or random coefficients. In either case, the resulting models require the specification on an underlying parametric curve. The fitting of splines represents a semiparametric approach to the problem. In the context of animal breeding, cubic smoothing splines are particularly convenient because they can be incorporated into a suitably...

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