Big data and the dairy cow: factors affecting fertility in UK herds

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Big data and the dairy cow: factors affecting fertility in UK herds

Routinely collected herd management data in a variety of formats were collated from 468 dairy herds, and novel objective measures of data recording quality were developed and applied. This revealed that there was a substantial amount of variation in data quality between herds, and the vast majority...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hudson, Chris
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	dairy; cow; fertility; reproduction; big data; probabilistic sensitivity analysis; stochastic modelling; multilevel modelling
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28896/

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