Unfortunately, some typos were not spotted during preparation of the book.

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Neil

neil.cameron@bbsrc.ac.uk


Page 14 Dam total for dam 4 equals 89

Page 19 c2=tFS-2tHS

Page 31 (last line) and Page 32 (third last line) specific environment should be general environment

Page 38 Figure 4.5 Switch curve labels re=0.10 =>re=0.75 , re=0.25 =>re=0.50 , etc

Page 73 The heritability in the first element of G should be hY2sY2

Page 79 Formula for b b=S-1P-1RGa

Page 87 Para 1 line 2 two traits in the selection criterion.

Page 92 Para 2 line 4 Change "two and one" to "one and two"

Page 92 Figure 7.4 title Change trait Y to trait X

Page 128 Formule for M M=I-X(X'X)-1X'

Page 129 Formula for sire variance Insert s after residual variance

Page 153 Term for animal 5(paternal,maternal)=0.25

Page 184 Q3 (d) c2=td-2ts

Page 185 Q5 (a) SD2- (SD)2/10

Page 186 Q6 (b) Square root should only apply to denominator

Page 191 Q16 (c) cov(ind,F)=[1/n + (n-1)t/n] sP2

Page 193 Q21 G(1,1)=0.0048

Page 195 Q24 genetic covariances [1/n+0.5(n-1)/n]hADG2 sP2 and [1/n+0.5(n-1)/n]rAhADGhLEAN sADGsLEAN

Page 198 Q 29 Diagonal elements should be 11, 12 and 13

Page 198 Q 29 The X'Z and Z'X matrices should be interchanged

Page 199 Q30 The elements of the second 2x2 matrix on the diagonal should be 5.778 -0.444 and 6.778.


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