In this article, we study the asymptotic behaviour of least-square estimator in a linear regression model based on random observation instances. We provide mild assumptions moments and dependence structure randomly spaced observations residuals under which is strongly consistent. particular, consider instances that are negatively superadditive dependent within each other, while for merely assum...

The aim of this study was to model the variances and covariances of body weight in Zandi sheep from 60 to 365 days of age using random regression models (RRM). Legendre polynomials of different orders were used to model the direct and maternal covariances. Mean trends were also modeled through a quadratic regression on orthogonal polynomials of age. Homogeneity and heterogeneity of the residual...

In the context of ridge regression, the estimation of ridge (shrinkage) parameter plays an important role in analyzing data. Many efforts have been put to develop skills and methods of computing shrinkage estimators for different full-parametric ridge regression approaches, using eigenvalues. However, the estimation of shrinkage parameter is neglected for semiparametric regression models. The m...

Various random regression models have been advocated for the fitting of covariance structures. It was suggested that a spline model would fit better to weight data than a random regression model that utilizes orthogonal polynomials. The objective of this study was to investigate which kind of random regression model fits best to weight data of pigs. Two random regression models that described w...

variace / covariance components of 227118 first lactaiom test-day milk yield records belonged to 31258 iranian holstein cows were estimated using nine random regression models. afterwards, different measures of persistency based on estimation breeding value were evaluated. three functions were used to adjust fixed lactation curve: ali and schaeffer (as), quadratic (le3) and cubic (le4) order of...

objective: the main objective of this research was estimation of genetic parameters for five consecutive measurements of egg weights in isfahan fowl using multi trait model and random regression models. methods: the statistical models included generation-hatch as a fixed effect, weeks of age as a covariate and additive genetic and individual permanent environmental effects as random effects. th...

the impact of climatic variations on basal area growth of basswood (ba) (tilia americana l.), american beech (be) (fagus grandifolia enrh.), bitternut hickory (bh) (caria cordiformis (wang.) k. koch), largetooth aspen (la) (populus grandidentata michx.), red maple (rm) (acer rubrum l.), red oak (ro) (quercus rubra l.), sugar maple (sm) (acer saccharum marsh.), and white ash (wa) (fraxinus a...