Over the last ten years the introduction of computer intensive statistical methods has opened new horizons concerning the probability models that can be fitted to genetic data, the scale of the problems that can be tackled and the nature of the qu...
Developments in statistics and computing as well as their application to genetic improvement of livestock gained momentum over the last 20 years. This text reviews and consolidates the statistical foundations of animal breeding. This text will pro...
Introduction. A Brief History of Quantitative Genetics. Complex Traits, Interactions, and Challenges to Prediction. Linear Models and the Curse of Dimensionality. Regularized Regressions. The Genomic Best Linear Unbiased Predictor. The Bayesian Alphabet. Reproducing Kernel Hiblert Spaces Regressions. Penalized Neural Networks. Re-sampling Methods. Whole Genome Regression and Population Stratification. Appendices.