some output from asr file

[Yuandan Zhang <yzhang@metz.une.edu.au>]

Hi,
While I analysed sheep weaning weight data using asreml, I've getten some
output that confused me. 
First, the description of the data is showed as 
 
  Model term      Size Type     COL  Minimum     Mean        Maximum   #
zero #miss
   1 animal        398 Direct     1  3.0000      204.47      398.00
0.     0
   2 sire            1 Covariate  2  1.0000      31311.      94087.
0.     2
   3 dam             1 Covariate  3  90002.      92419.      94288.
0.     0
   4 sex             2 Factor     4  1.0000      1.5314      2.0000
0.     0
   5 brrank          3 Factor     5  1.0000      1.5990      3.0000
0.     0
......  
   9 genotype        5 Factor     9  1.0000      3.4734      5.0000
0.     0
  ......
  14 wwt             1 Variate   14  10.900      22.447      34.200
0.     0
  ......
  21 mu              1 Constant Term

Following is the as file

Lamb fec and weight data from mating97 FEC -6/3, wt birth-6/3
        animal  !P
        sire    
        dam  
        sex  2
        brrank   3
        sire_gd
        ewegd
        sirebd
        genotype 5
        lambplot
        bage
        wage
        bwt 
        wwt 
        wt4298  
        wt6398  
        FEC181297  
        Nem181297  
        FEC6398   
        nem6398   
        #97002 94087 93193 2 2  0   0  1  4 11 94 2.6 19.5 21.7 20.8 4 3 3 0
wt_fec.txt
wt_fec.txt
wwt ~mu sex genotype !r animal !f brrank 

 The output in asr file is :

Forming          410 equations:            9 dense
 NOTICE:     3 (more) singularities,
 LogL=-331.254     S2=  8.292       199 df   0.10000   0.00000   1.00000
 LogL=-331.012     S2=  7.681       199 df   0.20413   0.00000   1.00000
 LogL=-329.910     S2=  5.400       199 df   0.81331   0.00000   1.00000
 LogL=-327.708     S2=  1.568       199 df   5.89486   0.00000   1.00000
 LogL=-326.870     S2= 0.1704       199 df  64.84345   0.00000   1.00000
 LogL=-326.777     S2= 0.1577E-01   199 df 713.27793   0.00000   1.00000
 LogL=-326.768     S2= 0.1436E-02   199 df7846.05719   0.00000   1.00000

 Final parameter values                   7846.12527   0.00000   1.00000

 WARNING:  1 singularities in AI matrix.
   Source       Model  terms     Gamma     Component    Compnt/StndErr
  animal          398    398   7846.13       11.2667          9.97
  Variance        207    199   1.00000      0.143596E-02      0.00
                     Solution       Standard Error    T-value     T-prev
   9 genotype                 4        5.16        5.16 [ DF F_inc F_all ]
                    2   -1.96544        1.87758         -1.05
                    3   -3.62408        2.28853         -1.58     -0.72
                    4    4.42244        1.71869          2.57      3.65
                    5    4.42008        1.74527          2.53      0.00
   4 sex                      1        3.83        3.99 [ DF F_inc F_all ]
                    7  -0.834937       0.417911         -2.00
   1 animal                 398 effects fitted
   5 brrank                   3 effects fitted
 Finished: 22:37:03.03                LogL Converged                          

And mu in sln file is 0.

Can some one explain the results for me? 
 Thanks 
Yuandan



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