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| Biase,Adriele Giaretta; Dias,Carlos Tadeu dos Santos; Barioni,Luís Gustavo; Albertini,Tiago Zanett; Martorano,Lucieta Guerreiro; Oltjen,James W.; Lanna,Dante Pazzanese Duarte; Oliveira,Patrícia Perondi Anchão; Medeiros,Sérgio Raposo de; Torres Júnior,Roberto Augusto de Almeida. |
| ABSTRACT: The system of differential equations proposed by Oltjen et al. [1986, named Davis Growth Model (DGM)] to represent cattle growth has been parameterized with data from Bos taurus (British) and Bos indicus (Nellore) breeds. The DGM has been successfully used for simulation and decision support in the United States. However, the effect of about 30 years of genetic improvement and the use of different breeds may affect the model parameter values, which also may need to be re-estimated for crossbred animals. The aim of this study was to estimate parameter values and confidence intervals for the DGM with growth and body composition data from Zebu crossbred animals. Confidence intervals and asymptotic distribution were generated through nonparametric... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Asymptotic distribution; Calibrating; Cattle growth; Nonparametric bootstrap; Ordinary differential equations. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162017000100008 |
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