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FW: An R Package for Finlay-Wilkinson Regression that Incorporates Genomic/Pedigree Information and Covariance Structures Between Environments.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 29 Dec 2015
Lian Lian, de Los Campos Gustavo
Abstract excerpt
The Finlay-Wilkinson regression (FW) is a popular method among plant breeders to describe genotype by environment interaction. The standard implementation is a two-step procedure that uses environment (sample) means as covariates in a within-line ordinary least squares (OLS) regression. This procedure can be suboptimal for at least four reasons: (1) in the first step environmental means are typically estimated...
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