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  title info:
    title: Calculation of Demographic Parameters in Tropical Livestock Herds
    sub title: A discrete time approach with LASER animal-based monitoring data
  name:
    name part: Lesnoff, Matthieu.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Lancelot, Renaud.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Moulin, Charles-Henri.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Messad, Samir.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Juanès, Xavier.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Sahut, Christian.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 99 p. 33 illus., 23 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Ruminant livestock (cattle, small ruminants, and camels) have a determinant economic role in many tropical developing countries. In traditional low-input farming systems, demographic parameters (e.g. reproduction or mortality rates) are important indicators for estimating and modelling herd dynamics and production, and impacts of farming practices or environmental risks (droughts, epizootics, etc.). Although such parameters have been extensively described in the literature on tropical livestock, many descriptions only rely on empirical presentations of formulas without clear methodological justifications. This book fills this gap, presenting the main concepts used to define and compute demographic parameters for tropical livestock, such as probabilities and hazard rates of occurrences and competing risks. It is based on the LASER software, a relational database management system specifically designed for animal-based monitoring surveys. It also provides an introduction on R, the free statistical software (http://www.r-project.org) used for the computations. It is intended for researchers, engineers, technicians, or students dealing with demographic parameters of tropical ruminant livestock in various fields such as animal science, epidemiology, or economy. It will also be valuable for readers wishing to enhance their understanding of definitions and formulas found in the literature, and it will guide them in their applications.
  note: by Matthieu Lesnoff, Renaud Lancelot, Charles-Henri Moulin, Samir Messad, Xavier Juanès, Christian Sahut.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Animal ecology
  subject:
    topic: Zoology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Zoology
  subject:
    topic: Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Monitoring/Analysis
  subject:
    topic: Animal Ecology
  classification: QL1-991
  classification: 590
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9789401790260
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9026-0
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    record creation date: 140527
    record change date: 20140528022831.0
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