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Theory and Analysis of Threshold Characters

Journal of Animal Science · 1982 · Vol. 54(5) · pp. 1079–1096

Daniel Gianola✉(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Abstract

This paper deals with theory, methods and problems in the analysis of categorical data in animal breeding when a threshold model is postulated for an underlying normal distribution of phenotypes. Linear and nonlinear statistical models potentially useful for estimating parameters of the underlying and outward distributions are reviewed and extended. Methods for evaluating the genetic value of candidates for selection from single or multiple populations are discussed comparatively.

Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock Genetics and Plant Breeding Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and AnimalsCategorical variableThreshold modelSelection (genetic algorithm)StatisticsValue (mathematics)EconometricsLinear modelEvolutionary biologyBiologyComputer science

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