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Table 10 Posterior inference on herd-year-season (co)variances for gestation length (GL) and birth weight (BW) using the bivariate Student's-t (BSt) and normal (BN) models.

From: Use of linear mixed models for genetic evaluation of gestation length and birth weight allowing for heavy-tailed residual effects

 

BSt

BN

Parameters

PM1

95% PPI2

ESS3

PM

95% PPI

ESS

4.00

[3.02, 5.10]

2,122

4.21

[3.00, 5.60]

1,661

2.43

[2.04, 2.85]

3,282

2.56

[2.14, 3.00]

3,403

  1. 1Posterior mean
  2. 295% equal-tailed posterior probability interval based on the 2.5thand 97.5thpercentiles of the posterior density
  3. 3Effective sample size
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