A Manual for Use of BESTPRED: A Program for Estimation of Lactation Yield and Persistency Using Best Prediction

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Contents

• List of Tables
• List of Figures
  • 1. Preface
  • 2. Introduction
  • 3. Installation
    • 3.1 Obtaining BESTPRED
    • 3.2 Structure of BESTPRED
    • 3.3 Compiling BESTPRED
      • 3.3.1 Compiler Flags
      • 3.3.2 Testing the Program
    • 3.4 User Support, Feature Requests, and Bug Reports
  • 4. Using BESTPRED
    • 4.1 Standalone Operation
    • 4.2 Calling as a Subroutine
      • 4.2.1 Inputs
      • 4.2.2 Output
    • 4.3 File Output
    • 4.4 Screen Output
    • 4.5 Actual and Mature Equivalent Yields
    • 4.6 Drawing Lactation Curves
    • 4.7 Logging
    • 4.8 Simulating Lactation Data
  • 5. Parameters
    • 5.1 Description of Parameters
      • 5.1.1 breed11
      • 5.1.2 breedUNK
      • 5.1.3 dailyfreq
      • 5.1.4 DEBUGmsgs
      • 5.1.5 DEBUGparms
      • 5.1.6 dim0
      • 5.1.7 dim0flag
      • 5.1.8 GLOBALmtrait
      • 5.1.9 GRAFplot
      • 5.1.10 INfile and OUTfile
      • 5.1.11 INTmethod
      • 5.1.12 INTmethodSCS
      • 5.1.13 laclen
      • 5.1.14 maxlen
      • 5.1.15 maxprnt
      • 5.1.16 maxshow
      • 5.1.17 maxtd
      • 5.1.18 mtrait
      • 5.1.19 obs
      • 5.1.20 ONscreen
      • 5.1.21 PERSfloor and PERSceiling
      • 5.1.22 plotfreq
      • 5.1.23 READparms
      • 5.1.24 source
      • 5.1.25 UNITSin and UNITSout
      • 5.1.26 use3X
      • 5.1.27 WRITEcurve and CURVEfile
      • 5.1.28 WRITEdata and DATAfile
    • 5.2 Parameter File Format
    • 5.3 Default Parameter Values
    • 5.4 Logging Parameters
      • 5.4.1 LOGfile
      • 5.4.2 LOGfreq
      • 5.4.3 LOGon
    • 5.5 Default Logging Parameter Values
    • 5.6 Release Parameters
      • 5.6.1 BESTPREDdate
      • 5.6.2 BESTPREDemail
      • 5.6.3 BESTPREDname
      • 5.6.4 BESTPREDversion
      • 5.6.5 BESTPREDwebsite
    • 5.7 Default Release Parameter Values
  • 6. Methodology
    • 6.1 Derivation of Best Prediction
    • 6.2 Modeling Lactations Longer than 305-d
    • 6.3 Modeling Correlations Among Test Day Yields
    • 6.4 Computational Details
  • 7. Troubleshooting
    • 7.1 Absoft 64-bit Fortran 95 compiler
      • 7.1.1 Link Failed
    • 7.2 Missing File
      • 7.2.1 adjust.scs
  • 8. Changes
• Bibliography
• Index

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A Manual for Use of BESTPRED: A Program for Estimation of Lactation Yield and Persistency Using Best Prediction

Previous: Front Matter Up: A Manual for Use Next: List of Tables

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Release 2.0 rc 3, documentation updated on October 2, 2007
Revised October 23, 2008.