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Short communication: Principal components and factor analytic models for test-day milk yield in Brazilian Holstein cattle.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Apr 2012
Bignardi A B, El Faro L, Rosa G J M, Cardoso V L, Machado P F, Albuquerque L G
Abstract excerpt
A total of 46,089 individual monthly test-day (TD) milk yields (10 test-days), from 7,331 complete first lactations of Holstein cattle were analyzed. A standard multivariate analysis (MV), reduced rank analyses fitting the first 2, 3, and 4 genetic principal components (PC2, PC3, PC4), and analyses that fitted a factor analytic structure considering 2, 3, and 4 factors (FAS2, FAS3, FAS4), were carried out. The...
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