Exploration & description
Before undertaking a final statistical analysis it is
useful to first explore the relationships between weaning weight and its
covariates to see how best to define how these relationships might be included
in the statistical model. In this example we hypothesise that, in addition to
year of birth and sex, age of dam and age of lamb at weaning may also influence
weaning weight. But how? The following pages show how we might do
this.
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