The ecologists guide to the animal model

Summary

This page contains information from the 'Ecologists' Guide to the Animal Model' published by the Journal of Animal Ecology. If you are new to animal models, we recommend that you read the paper and work through some of the tutorials using the sample data provided.

Download the paper here.

Table of contents

• Summary
  • Tutorials
    • ASReml
    • ASReml-R
    • MCMCglmm
    • WOMBAT

Tutorials

To do the tutorials, you first have to decide which software package you are going to use. A pdf of information on the different packages can be accessed here.

ASReml

To do the tutorials in ASReml you will need

• ASReml installed
• The pdf of the ASReml Tutorial
• Data files
  * gryphon.ped - the pedigree file
  * gryphon.dat - the data file for univariate and bivariate tutorials
  * gryphonRM.dat - the data file for repeated measures tutorial

ASReml-R

To do the tutorials in ASReml-R you will need

• ASReml, R and the ASReml for R plugin
• The pdf of the ASReml-R tutorial
• Data files
  * gryphonped.txt - the pedigree file
  * gryphon.txt - the data file for univariate and bivariate tutorials
  * gryphonRM.txt - the data file for repeated measures tutorial

MCMCglmm

To do the tutorials in MCMCglmm you will need

• R with the MCMCglmm package installed
• The updated pdf of the MCMCglmm tutorial
  * This is slightly modified from the version originally presented with the JAE paper.
  * The original suggested prior specifications that could be problematic in some instances
  * and this version should be used instead.
• Data files
  * gryphonped.txt - the pedigree file
  * gryphon.txt - the data file for univariate and bivariate tutorials
  * gryphonRM.txt - the data file for repeated measures tutorial

WOMBAT

To do the tutorials in WOMBAT you will need

• WOMBAT installed
• The pdf of the WOMBAT tutorial
• Data files
  * gryphon.ped_WOMBAT - the pedigree file
  * gryphon_uni.dat - the data file for the univariate tutorial
  * gryphon_bi.dat - the data file for the bivariate tutorial
  * gryphonRM.dat and gyyphon_RM_pe.dat - the data files for the repeated measures tutorial

Wilson 2010 JAE - EcologistsGuide.pdf

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