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A comparison of normal and nonnormal mixed models for number of lambs born in Norwegian sheep.
Journal of animal science - 1 May 1994
Olesen I, Perez-Enciso M, Gianola D, Thomas D L
Abstract excerpt
A comparison of linear (LM), threshold (TM), and Poisson (PM) mixed models for genetic analysis of number of lambs born (NLB) from 1-yr-old ewes was conducted using 37,718 and 18,633 records of two Norwegian breeds, Dala and Spaelsau, respectively. Models fitted included flock-year as a fixed effect and the random effect of sire. In the Poisson model, the residual variation was assumed to be Poisson, whereas it...
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