Bayesian estimation of dispersion parameters with a reduced animal model including polygenic and QTL effects.docVIP

Johan A.M. Van Arendonk a Wageningen, the Netherlands b Department of Animal Science Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA Abstract - In animal breeding, Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms are increasingly used to draw statistical inferences about marginal posterior distributions of in genetic models. The Gibbs sampling algorithm is most commonly used and requires full conditional densities to be of a standard form. In this study, we describe a Bayesian dispersion parameters. The Metropolis Hastings algorithm is used to densities. The flexibility of the Metropolis Hastings algorith