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XXIV.—On the Sampling Variance of Heritability Estimates derived from Variance Analyses*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

Robert Osborne  and
W. S. B. Paterson
Robert Osborne
Affiliation:
Poultry Research Centre, Edinburgh
W. S. B. Paterson
Affiliation:
Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh.
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Synopsis

A method is presented by which the sampling variance of all heritability estimates derived from ratios involving variance components may be found.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 64 , Issue 4 , 1952 , pp. 456 - 461
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1952

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This paper was assisted in publication by a grant from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.

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