Economic values under inappropriate normal distribution assumptions

The objectives of this study were to quantify the errors in economic values (EVs) for traits affected by cost or price thresholds when skewed or kurtotic distributions of varying degree are assumed to be normal and when data with a normal distribution is subject to censoring. EVs were estimated for...

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Main Authors: A. Sadeghi-Sefidmazgi, A. Nejati-Javaremi, M. Moradi-Shahrbabak, S.R. Miraei-Ashtiani, P.R. Amer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2012-01-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731112000183