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Real-Time Estimation of the Distribution of Brake Response Times for an Individual Driver Using Vehicular Ad Hoc Network

, 2014
Adapting the functioning of the collision warning systems to the specific drivers' characteristics is of great benefit to drivers. For example, by customizing collision warning algorithms we can minimize false alarms, thereby reducing injuries and deaths
Pishro-Nik, Hossein, Rakhshan, Ali, Ray, Evan   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Demand Systems Without Errors

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes a novel method for combining revealed preference analysis in the tradition of Afriat (1967, International Economic Review, 8: 76–77) with a statistical demand model. The approach is illustrated with an analysis of the labor supply of the nonneoclassical taxi drivers described in Farber (2005, Journal of Political Economy ...
Ian Crawford
wiley   +1 more source

Unknown parent groups and truncated pedigree in single-step genomic evaluations of Murrah buffaloes

Journal of Dairy Science
: Missing pedigrees may produce bias in genomic evaluations. Thus, strategies to deal with this problem have been proposed as using unknown parent groups (UPG) or truncated pedigrees.
T.P. Melo, A.K. Zwirtes, A.A. Silva, S.F. Lázaro, H.R. Oliveira, K.R. Silveira, J.C.G. Santos, W.B.F. Andrade, S. Kluska, L.A. Evangelho, H.N. Oliveira, H. Tonhati   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effect of genomic information on optimal contribution selection in livestock breeding programs [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Long-term benefits in animal breeding programs require that increases in genetic merit be balanced with the need to maintain diversity (lost due to inbreeding). This can be achieved by using optimal contribution selection. The availability of
Clark, Samuel A, Hickey, John M, Kinghorn, Brian P, van der Werf, Julius Hj   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Handling Out‐of‐Sample Areas to Estimate the Unemployment Rate at Local Labour Market Areas in Italy

International Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary Unemployment rate estimates for small areas are used to efficiently support the distribution of services and the allocation of resources, grants and funding. A Fay–Herriot type model is the most used tool to obtain these estimates. Under this approach out‐of‐sample areas require some synthetic estimates. As the geographical context is extremely
Roberto Benedetti, Federica Piersimoni, Monica Pratesi, Nicola Salvati, Thomas Suesse   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Simultaneous fitting of genomic-BLUP and Bayes-C components in a genomic prediction model

Genetics Selection Evolution, 2017
Background The rapid adoption of genomic selection is due to two key factors: availability of both high-throughput dense genotyping and statistical methods to estimate and predict breeding values.
Oscar O. M. Iheshiulor, John A. Woolliams, Morten Svendsen, Trygve Solberg, Theo H. E. Meuwissen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prediction of haplotypes for ungenotyped animals and its effect on marker-assisted breeding value estimation [PDF]

, 2010
Background: In livestock populations, missing genotypes on a large proportion of animals are a major problem to implement the estimation of marker-assisted breeding values using haplotypes.
Calus, M.P.L., Mulder, H.A., Veerkamp, R.F.   +2 more
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An alternative to restricted BLUP based on mate selection

Livestock Production Science, 1992
A new application of mate selection is presented in this study that maximizes the expected genetic progress of a selected trait while holding a correlated trait unchanged. The proposed method combines the use of BLUP evaluation and linear programming techniques and its properties have been analyzed by Monte Carlo simulation on a numerical example from ...
Toro, M. A., Silió, L.
openaire   +4 more sources

A Similarity Matrix for Preserving Haplotype Diversity Amongst Parents in Genomic Selection

Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In genomic selection, balancing genetic gain with the preservation of genetic diversity is a critical challenge, requiring innovative approaches to parent selection. Traditional methods risk losing valuable genetic diversity by not fully accounting for the complex patterns of haplotype distribution.
Abdulraheem A. Musa, Norbert Reinsch
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of Transformation of Non‐Normal Fitness Trait Data on the Estimation of Genetic Parameters in Turkeys

Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fitness traits described as a ratio often display non‐normal distributions; consequently, transformations are frequently applied to improve normality prior to the estimation of genetic parameters. However, the impact of different transformations on genetic parameter estimates depends on the dataset at hand.
Evan Hartono, Owen W. Willems, Xuechun Bai, Benjamin J. Wood, Romdhane Rekaya, Samuel E. Aggrey   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source