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A method to construct confidence interval for expected response to multi-trait selection
1Agriculture Canada Research Station, P.O. Box 20280, E3B 4Z7, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Abstract:
Confidence intervals are constructed for the expected responses to three types of multi-trait selection. The influence of numbers of replicates and genotypes used in a progeny test experiment on the precision of response of multi-trait selection is discussed based on the structure of the established intervals. Special attention is paid to the characteristics of the intervals constructed for the conventional least square selection indices.
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