WOMBAT

A Program for Mixed Model Analyses by Restricted Maximum Likelihood

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Karin Meyer
Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit, University of New England
Armidale, NSW 2351, AUSTRALIA

This copy of the manual has been produced on July 30, 2008. It is an ‘automatic’ translation from the LaTeX source (for the pdf version) using TeX4HT.

Contents
1 Introduction
2 Availability
3 Getting started
3.1 Installation
3.2 Using the manual
3.3 Troubleshooting
4 Parameter file
General rules
4.1 Run options
4.2 Comment line
4.3 Analysis type
4.4 Pedigree file
4.5 Data file
4.6 Model of analysis
4.7 Covariance components
4.8 Special information
5 Run options
5.1 Basic run options
5.2 Advanced run options
5.3 Parameter file name
6 Input files
6.1 Data File
6.2 Pedigree File
6.3 Parameter File
6.4 Other Files
7 Output files
7.1 Main results files
7.2 Additional results
7.3 ‘Utility’ files
8 Work files
9 Examples
A Technical details
A.1 Ordering strategies
A.2 Convergence citeria
A.3 Parameterisation
A.4 Approximation of sampling errors
A.5 Modification of the average information matrix
A.6 Iterative summation
Bibliography

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