Use of linear discriminant analysis to characterise three dairy cattle breeds on the basis of several milk characteristics
To characterise individuals of differents breeds on the basis of milk composition and to identify the best set of variablesa linear discriminant analysis (LDA), on 14 milk production traits, was performed on milk samples from 199 cows of differentbreeds (respectively, 127 subjects were Italian Friesians (IF), 62 were German Friesians (GF), and 10 w