Effect of Non-normality on Response to Selection in small Populations

✍ Scribed by M. Gopinath Rao; Dr. J. P. Jain

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 329 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0323-3847
• DOI: 10.1002/bimj.4710230509

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The expressions for the r‐th largest standardised deviate have been derived for beta, gamma, exponential and log‐normal distributions. Using these expressions the intensities of selection have been computed for different parametric values of the distributions and of p, the proportion saved for samples of size upto 10 and compared with the corresponding values for normal distribution. The normal approximation to beta and gamma distributions is seen to be quite robust in predicting response to selection under moderately heavy and low cullings.