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- <texit info> author=Karin Meyer title=WOMBAT: frequently asked questions </texit> ?????? Frequently ... can I do about it? * **A:** Standard errors in WOMBAT are derived a) assuming large samples, and b) a s... "Small/Invalid Pivot" ???? * **Q:** When I run WOMBAT I often get a message to the screen, saying eithe

ples and am trying to run them under Windows, but WOMBAT fails straightaway, even for the simplest case. W... te' the Linux files into Windows/DOS files before WOMBAT can run the examples. The tool for this is **''un... xcel data files ???? * **Q:** I have installed WOMBAT under Linux and the examples all work just fine.

====== Example 1 for WOMBAT ====== One of the simplest analysis in quantitative genetics is the case wher... en at the start of the summary files generated by WOMBAT. * Line 2 identifies the pedigree file to be us... s. In this example, we call the parameter file ''wombat.par''. ==== Running WOMBAT ==== Running WOMBAT

====== Updates and changes to WOMBAT ====== This page tries to keep track of what has been changed in WOMBAT and when — including `bug' fixes. ===== Changes ===== ==== 2009 ==== == 4/8/2009 == John K. n... . == 21/01/2009 == Changes made last year caused WOMBAT to no longer recognise the ''DIAG'' option for r

<texit> author=Karin Meyer title=The Wicked WOMBAT Wiki </texit> ====== The Wicked WOMBAT Wiki ====== LO... ermittendly Check back once in a while </tip> {{wombat:wombat_snow.jpg?200x133&direct}} This Wiki coll... phazard fashion -- information related to running WOMBAT and REML estimation in general. - [[wombat:UpDa

Meyer title=Using `advanced' runtime options for WOMBAT </texit> ====== Using `advanced' run time options ====== WOMBAT offers a substantial number of so-called advanced run time options. While simple a... Expectation Maximisation (EM or PX-EM) algorithm, WOMBAT estimates the elements of the Cholesky factors of

uthor=Karin Meyer title=Specialised analyses with WOMBAT </texit> ====== Specialised analyses with WOMBAT ====== This page provides some hints for non-standard analyses. ===== Fitting a factor-analytic model ===== WOMBAT can accommodate a factor-analytic model for the structure of covariance matrices

<texit info> author=Karin Meyer title=WOMBAT: Convergence criteria in REML Analyses </texit> ====== Checking convergence of REML analyses ====== WOMBAT employs iterative schemes to locate the maximum of t... ce criteria employed are fairly stringent. Hence, WOMBAT may stop after the maximum number of iterates all

====== Auxiliary programs for WOMBAT ====== This page collects a small number of simple, stand-alone programs to be used in conjunction with WOMBAT. Change the output statements as you please. NB: You need... ! auxiliary program to WOMBAT to examine contents of binary file(s) ! "nrmiver

g values for covariance components ====== To run WOMBAT, starting values for all matrices of covariance c... is generally close enough. To make life easier, WOMBAT has an option (''––subset'') which will generate ... its of interest. ===== Combining results ===== WOMBAT provides the facility to combine results from pa

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====== Worked Examples ====== Use of WOMBAT is illustrated by a suite of worked examples. The complete se... n be downloaded [[http://agbu.une.edu.au/~kmeyer/WOMBAT/examples.tar.gz |here]]. There are a total of 9

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====== Some publications citing or using WOMBAT ====== <bibtex> @Article{piper2007, author = {Piper,