Estimation of heterogeneous within-herd variance components using empirical Bayes methods: a simulation study.

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Genetic evaluation using BLUP can accommodate heterogeneous variances if the necessary variance components are known; this may require estimation of variance components within each heterogeneous subclass. Properties of sire and residual variance estimates obtained by an empirical Bayes approach, which combines within-herd and prior estimates, were examined via simulation. Prior estimates were obtained using REML...

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