Two procedures for computing the marginal posterior density of heritabilities or genetic correlations, ie, Laplace’s method to approximate integrals and Gibbs sampling, are compared. A multiple trait animal model is considered with one random effect, no missing observations and identical models for all traits. The Laplace approximation consists in computing the marginal posterior density for different values of the parameter of interest. This approximation requires the repeated evaluation of traces and determinants, which are easy to compute once the eigenvalues of a matrix of dimension equal to the number of animals are determined. These eigenvalues can be efficiently computed by the Lanczos algorithm. The Gibbs sampler generates s...
The key quantity needed for Bayesian hypothesis testing and model selection is the marginal likeliho...
A method of analysis of bivariate « all or none » categorical responses arising in animal breeding ...
Abstract Simulated data were used to investigate the influence of the choice of priors on estimation...
The application of Gibbs sampling is considered for inference in a mixed inheritance model in animal...
International audienceIn an Expectation-Maximization type Restricted Maximum Likelihood (REML) proce...
In an Expectation-Maximization type Restricted Maximum Likelihood (REML) procedure, the estimation...
Abstract Background In the genetic analysis of binary traits with one observation per animal, animal...
Generalized linear mixed models are now popular in the animal breeding and biostatistics literature ...
Given observations of a trait and a pedigree for a group of animals, the basic model in quantitative...
Abstract With the increasing use of survival models in animal breeding to address the genetic aspect...
This article proposes the Bayesian approach to solve problems arising in animal breeding theory. Gen...
With the increasing use of survival models in animal breeding to address the genetic aspects of main...
A method of prediction of genetic merit from jointly distributed quanta] and quantitative responses...
Markov chain Monte-Carlo methods are increasingly being applied to make inferences about the margina...
In the case of the mixed linear model the random effects are usually assumed to be normally distribu...
The key quantity needed for Bayesian hypothesis testing and model selection is the marginal likeliho...
A method of analysis of bivariate « all or none » categorical responses arising in animal breeding ...
Abstract Simulated data were used to investigate the influence of the choice of priors on estimation...
The application of Gibbs sampling is considered for inference in a mixed inheritance model in animal...
International audienceIn an Expectation-Maximization type Restricted Maximum Likelihood (REML) proce...
In an Expectation-Maximization type Restricted Maximum Likelihood (REML) procedure, the estimation...
Abstract Background In the genetic analysis of binary traits with one observation per animal, animal...
Generalized linear mixed models are now popular in the animal breeding and biostatistics literature ...
Given observations of a trait and a pedigree for a group of animals, the basic model in quantitative...
Abstract With the increasing use of survival models in animal breeding to address the genetic aspect...
This article proposes the Bayesian approach to solve problems arising in animal breeding theory. Gen...
With the increasing use of survival models in animal breeding to address the genetic aspects of main...
A method of prediction of genetic merit from jointly distributed quanta] and quantitative responses...
Markov chain Monte-Carlo methods are increasingly being applied to make inferences about the margina...
In the case of the mixed linear model the random effects are usually assumed to be normally distribu...
The key quantity needed for Bayesian hypothesis testing and model selection is the marginal likeliho...
A method of analysis of bivariate « all or none » categorical responses arising in animal breeding ...
Abstract Simulated data were used to investigate the influence of the choice of priors on estimation...