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A Comparison of Methods for Describing Irregular Animal Growth and Testing for Treatment Effects

Doogan, V.J., Swain, A.J., Petherick, J.C. and Holroyd, R.G. (2000) A Comparison of Methods for Describing Irregular Animal Growth and Testing for Treatment Effects. In: Animal Production for a Consuming World. AAAP-ASAP Conference, 2nd - 7th July, Sydney, Australia.

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Abstract

In many designed experiments with animals liveweight is recorded several times during the trial. Such data are commonly referred to as repeated measures data. An aim of such experiments is generally to compare the growth patterns for the applied treatments. This paper discusses some of the methods of analysing repeated measures data and illustrates the use of cubic smoothing splines to describe irregular cattle growth data.

Animal production for a consuming world : proceedings of 9th Congress of the Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies [AAAP] and 23rd Biennial Conference of the Australian Society of Animal Production [ASAP] and 17th Annual Symposium of the University of Sydney, Dairy Research Foundation, [DRF]. 2-7 July 2000, Sydney, Australia.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information:Reproduced with permission Australian Society of Animal Production [ASAP]. © AAAP 2000. Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production and Australian Society of Animal Production.
Keywords:Cattle; Liveweight; Feedlot; Growth patterns.
Subjects:Animal culture > Feeds and feeding. Animal nutrition
Animal culture > Cattle
Live Archive:15 Mar 2005
Last Modified:03 Sep 2021 16:47

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