| Week |
Course Content |
| Week 1 |
Introduction of Animal Selection |
| Week 2 |
Literature review |
| Week 3 |
Matrix algebra
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| Week 4 |
Calculating inbreeding and relationship coefficients
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| Week 5 |
Genetic Evaluation with different Sources of Records |
| Week 6 |
Best linear unbiased prediction with animals models |
| Week 7 |
Variance Component Estimation with the VCE package |
| Week 8 |
Computation of random and fixed effects in animal breeding with the PEST package
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| Week 9 |
Methods to Reduce the Dimension of Multivariate Models |
| Week 10 |
Use of Genetic Markers in Breeding Value Prediction (1)
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| Week 11 |
Use of Genetic Markers in Breeding Value Prediction (2) |
| Week 12 |
Computation of Genomic Breeding Values and Genomic Selection (1) |
| Week 13 |
Computation of Genomic Breeding Values and Genomic Selection (2) |
| Week 14 |
Computation of Genomic Breeding Values and Genomic Selection (3) |
| Week 15 |
Non-additive Animal Models |
| Week 16 |
Analysis of Longitudinal Data |
self-directed
learning |
03.Preparing presentations or reports related to industry and academia.
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