The Wicked WOMBAT Wiki

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This Wiki collects – in a somewhat haphazard fashion – information related to running WOMBAT and REML estimation in general.

  1. Updates and changes
  2. Frequently Asked Questions
    1. Error Messages
    2. Standard errors
    3. How to deal with ... ??
    4. Confusion
    5. Miscellaneous
    6. Windows specific problems
  3. Specific topics
    1. Choosing starting values for covariance components
    2. Using `advanced' run time options
    3. Checking convergence
    4. Specialised analyses
    5. Hypothesis testing
    6. Pre- and post REML/BLUP analyses
  4. Worked Examples
  5. Installation & Testing under Linux (Screenshots)

Some FORTRAN code useful when writing quantitative genetics software.