Identifying cow – level factors and farm characteristics associated with locomotion scores in dairy cows using cumulative link mixed models

• Andreas W. Oehm ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Andreas.Oehm@outlook.com

  Affiliation Clinic for Ruminants with Ambulatory and Herd Health Services, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munich, Oberschleissheim, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2709-8541

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• Roswitha Merle,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Veterinary Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8688-2926

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• Annegret Tautenhahn,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic for Ruminants and Swine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6998-5555

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• K. Charlotte Jensen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Veterinary Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Clinic for Cattle, University of Veterinary Medicine, Foundation, Hannover, Germany

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• Kerstin-Elisabeth Mueller,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic for Ruminants and Swine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Melanie Feist,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic for Ruminants with Ambulatory and Herd Health Services, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munich, Oberschleissheim, Germany

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• Yury Zablotski

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic for Ruminants with Ambulatory and Herd Health Services, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munich, Oberschleissheim, Germany

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