Comparison of Henderson's Method I and restricted maximum likelihood estimation of genetic parameters of reproductive traits.

doi:10.3382/ps.0701462

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Comparison of Henderson's Method I and restricted maximum likelihood estimation of genetic parameters of reproductive traits.

Poultry science - 1 Jul 1991

Beaumont C

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Genetic parameters of simulated reproductive traits were estimated with Henderson's Method I or restricted maximum likelihood (REML). Each of the 25 samples consisted of 2,667 birds from 50 sires. When reproductive traits were measured on all birds, the means of both sets of estimates were equal...

Topics

Analysis of Variance
Animals
Breeding
Chickens
Female
Male
Models, Genetic
Multivariate Analysis
Phenotype
Reproduction

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