An association rule which expresses patterns of multivariate phenotypes encoding partial correlations between single traits specifies quantitative descriptions of the single traits.
The challenge, of course, is ascertaining the full response range of a trait specified by a particular reaction norm and testing this response range in a variety of environments.
In the 'Search by Trait page', users can choose individual traits or groups of traits within specified trait thresholds.
In many countries, national and regional poultry shows are held where enthusiasts exhibit their birds which are judged on certain phenotypical breed traits as specified by their respective breed standards.
Wainer and Thissen stated that: "We have found no evidence of any comparison of the efficacy of the two formats (when a particular trait was specified and skilled item writers then constructed items to measure it) in which the multiple-choice item format was not superior" [ 50].
Individuals have five evolving life-history traits, namely the juvenile growth rate g; two traits that specify the maturation schedule, that is the slope s and the intercept y of a linear probabilistic maturation reaction norm (PMRN; Heino et al.
In addition, further methods development, such as a Bayesian treatment of the penetrance matrix, would enable us to analyze categorical traits without specifying the penetrance matrix in advance.
We explored the genetic characteristics of the bioethanol S. cerevisiae strain YJS329 and elucidated how genetic variations in its genome were correlated with specified traits compared to similar traits in the S288c-derived strain, BYZ1.
A Daoist approach might point to the way that the human traits are conditioned by and responses to the nonhuman environment, such that these traits cannot be specified independently of the environment.
