Use of ridge regression for the prediction of early growth performance in crossbred calves

The problem of multicollinearity in regression analysis was studied. Ridge regression (RR) techniques were used to estimate parameters affecting the performance of crossbred calves raised in tropical and subtropical regions by a model including additive, dominance, joint additive or "profit het...

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Main Authors: Eduardo da Cruz Gouveia Pimentel, Sandra Aidar de Queiroz, Roberto Carvalheiro, Luiz Alberto Fries
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2007-01-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572007000400006