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A note on a partial adjustment model to describe lactation curves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

Janneke A. Hoekstra
Janneke A. Hoekstra
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TNO-Institute of Mathematics, Information Processing and Statistics, PO Box 100, 6700 AC Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Abstract

Dhanoa and Le Du (Animal Production 1982, 34: 243–247) proposed a model in which the milk yield in a particular week is described by a weighted average of a straight-line target yield and the yield in the preceding week. It is demonstrated that the weight parameter × in this model is partially determined by the time from calving to peak yield and hence does not represent correlation between successive yields satisfactorily.

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Research Article
Information
Animal Production , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , June 1986 , pp. 431 - 432
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1986

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