Estimation in a multiplicative mixed model involving a genetic relationship matrix

Table 4 Summary of parameter estimates from the best model for and for the example data set: genetic variance (diagonal elements of and ) and error variance for each trial

Site	Year	Location	Additive variance	Non-additive variance	Error variance
1	2003	Biloela	0.1515	0.0154	0.1561
2	2003	Breeza	0.1281	-	0.1365
3	2003	Brookstead	0.0705	0.0256	0.0969
4	2003	Clifton	0.0138	0.0087	0.0411
5	2003	Kurumbul	0.0178	0.0097	0.3062
6	2003	Narrabri	0.1771	0.0932	0.1828
7	2003	Tamworth	0.1893	0.0561	0.1320
8	2004	Billa Billa	0.0875	0.0006	0.0323
9	2004	Biloela	0.1036	-	0.0847
10	2004	Breeza	0.9973	0.0283	0.1695
11	2004	Brookstead	0.1154	-	0.2608
12	2004	Gilgandra	0.2728	0.0172	0.0409
13	2004	Narrabri	0.1595	-	0.1159
14	2004	Walgett	0.1553	-	0.1350

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