Robust estimation of breeding values in a random regression test‐day model
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Summary Two robust estimation procedures were applied to a random regression test‐day model to reduce the effects of test‐day records that are generally labelled as outliers. One robust procedure consisted of estimating residuals (actual observation minus predicted) from the genetic evaluation model, computing the standard deviation of residuals across all records, and restricting the outlier residuals to be within k standard deviations. Thus, a new observation is created for use in the genetic evaluation model. The process is part of the iterations on data to obtain solutions to mixed model equations until no more outliers beyond k standard deviations exist. Four different values of k were examined. The second robust procedure utilizes different weights with each test‐day record. Weights are estimated from the residuals for all observations. Outliers tend to receive smaller weights, and thus, their influence tends to be reduced. In this study, eleven different weight formulas were compared. The objectives were to apply the robust procedures to test‐day milk yield records of Canadian Jersey cattle and to determine the effects on estimated breeding values (EBVs) and rankings of animals. Results were compared to usual best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) ignoring the outlier problem.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it