Re: SE of heritability calcs

Thanks,
I found one of Dr. Gilmour's papers on the RR models that was helpful
(Fischer et al. Genet. Sel. Evol. 36 (2004) 363-369.) and I will pull
up the text book you suggest.
Rick

At 16:17 06/11/2008, you wrote:
>I believe that ASREML uses a Taylor series approximation, and then
>assumes that the estimated variance and covariance components are known
>for inclusion in the formula. There are a number of statistics texts
>that will provide the derivation and background information - I suggest
>that you look at: Kendall, M. G., A. Stuart, et al. (1987). Kendall's
>Advanced Theory of Statistics: Design and Analysis, and Time Series. New
>York, Oxford University Press.
>
>
>Mark
>
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>Sent: Thursday, 6 November 2008 8:31 PM
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>Subject: SE of heritability calcs
>
>Can anyone tell me exactly how the standard errors the heritability
>estimates are calculated by ASREML
>Thanks Rick
>
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