We propose a new parsimonious version of the classical multivariate normal linear model, yielding a maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) that is asymptotically less variable than the MLE based on the ...

Mixed linear models are assumed in most animal breeding applications. Convenient methods for computing BLUE of the estimable linear functions of the fixed elements of the model and for computing best ...

Our conclusions thus provide essential recommendations for the development of robust protocols for meta-analysis of binary phenotypes with linear models.