Copula miss-specification in REML multivariate genetic animal model estimation.

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BACKGROUND: In animal genetics, linear mixed models are used to deal with genetic and environmental effects. The variance and covariance terms of these models are usually estimated by restricted maximum likelihood (REML), which provides unbiased estimators. A strong hypothesis of REML estimation is the multi-normality of the response variables. However, in practice, even if the marginal distributions of each...

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