Bayesian analysis of mixed linear models via Gibbs sampling with an application to litter size in Iberian pigs.docVIP

to litter size in Iberian pigs JJ Rutledge, D Gianola (Received 26 April 1993; accepted 17 December 1993) distributions through sampling from and updating conditional distribu- 1 213 records from 426 dams. The model had farrowing as fixed effects; breeding values (597), permanent environmental effects (426) and resid- (72 levels) and parity (4) uals were random. In CASE I, variances were assumed known, with estimates used as true parameter maximum likelihood) values. Here, means and variances of the posterior distributions of all effects were obtained, by inversion, from the mixed mod