Re: Functions of variance components

Dear Rami,
re:
Dear Arthur and ASReml Users
Is it possible to calculate an estimate of variance of geometric mean of
variance components with ASReml? Example: Variance of SQRT(X1 * X2) where
X1 and X2 are estimates of variance components. I looked at the chapter
about functions of variance components and could not find how to multiple
two components, is there a way around to do it?
Any suggestion, Could you please forward the message to the ASReml mailing
list as I am having problem when trying to post it there!
Rami
Rami Sawalha
Animal Breeding and Development
Scottish Agricultural College

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2) You can work out a variance of a function of variance components using
the expressions found in standard texts (e.g. I use Mood and Graybill
Intro to the Theory of Stats tihird edition page 180) However, I have
only programmed 3 particular expressions into ASReml - (Addition, ratio
and correlation) - being the main ones used. The variance of the variance
parameters
is returned in the .vvp file (not available under asreml-r and asreml-s)
so it should not be difficult to do the sums (but not in ASReml).

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