Sentence examples for using a sire model from inspiring English sources

These CDs were low when the genetic evaluation was done using a sire model, even for highly heritable traits.

A simulation using a sire model was carried out to investigate methods of analyzing binary data with ECP.

This average CD was about double than that obtained using a sire model with unknown and known pedigree (0.22 and 0.24, respectively).

In such a case, the data were simulated using an animal model with pedigree but the genetic evaluation was done using a sire model.

A simulation using a sire model was used to test the effect of the g-prior in the presence of ECP.

De los Campos et al. [ 14] have compared four SEM specifications to study relationships between somatic cell score (SCS) and milk yield (MY) in first-lactation Norwegian Red cows using a sire model.

Therefore, we decided to use a sire model implementation, because it is more robust than the animal model implementation with DHGLM when animals only have a single observation.

Instead of using an animal model, we used a sire model because implementation of the animal model DHGLM resulted in severely biased estimates of variance components with single observations per animal.

To be able to include the genomic pseudo-performances in a national genetic evaluation, sire EDPg and EDCg must be adapted to an animal model, where the sire variance used in a sire model is replaced by the additive genetic variance.

Computations of ψ s and of the diagonals of W s and W sv are different due to the use of a sire model compared to an animal model and are explained in the Appendix.

Existing evaluations used a sire threshold model.