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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Selection index and introduction to mixed model methods
  name:
    name part: Van Vleck, L. Dale (Lloyd Dale)
    name part: 1933-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: flu
    date issued: 1993
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 481 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
  table of contents: Parameters, statistics and expected values -- Little about matrix algebra -- Quantifying the simple mendelian model -- Short summation on population genetics -- Genes identical by descent-the basis of genetic likeness -- Genetic values and genetic covariances -- Selection index -- Determining the coefficients for selection index equations -- Sire evaluation, example of application of selection index -- Probability statements about true value -- Superiority of selected groups -- Selection index flow chart for single traits -- Selection with more than one trait measured -- Using records on all traits of relatives -- Selection index for categorical data -- Selection for embedded traits: maternal effects -- Selection when traits influenced by grandmaternal and maternal effects -- Fetal effects model (sire of fetus effect) -- Cytoplasmic effects model -- Selection for traits with nonlinear economic value -- Restricted selection -- Index and economic values in retrospect -- Introduction to mixed model prediction -- Prediction from linear models -- Least squares equations: one-way classification model.
  table of contents: (cont) Animal model -- Sire models -- Computing the inverse of the additive relationship matrix -- Models with animals related -- Sire models with some relationships -- Variance of prediction errors -- Numerical example of animal model with different constraints -- Creating and solving least squares and mixed model equations -- Models for crossbreeding -- Flow chart for mixed model equations -- Estimation of genetic parameters using simple statistical models -- Summation and dot notation -- Expected values -- Repeatability -- Heritability -- Genetic, environmental and phenotypic correlations -- Monte Carlo simulation -- Generating random standard normal variables.
  note: L. Dale Van Vleck.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-481).
  subject:
    topic: Selection indexes (Animal breeding)
    topic: Statistical methods
  subject:
    topic: Animals
    topic: genetics
  subject:
    topic: Breeding
  subject:
    topic: Models, Statistical
  subject:
    topic: Selection, Genetic
  classification: SF105.26 .V36 1993
  classification: 636.08/21
  identifier: 0849387620 (acid-free paper)
  identifier: 93008547
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 930511
    record change date: 20151001091227.0
    record identifier: in00001179463