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Table 11 Posterior inference on marginal residual (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

51.86

[48.43, 55.84]

2,376

48.90

[47.22, 50.64]

9,039

3.77

[3.01, 4.56]

8,213

3.20

[2.63, 3.78]

11,671

13.37

[12.47, 14.41]

2,367

11.14

[10.76, 11.53]

15,789

  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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