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Table 1 Posterior means and standard deviations of underlying heritability for a binary trait1

From: A simple algorithm to estimate genetic variance in an animal threshold model using Bayesian inference

Replicate

AnimB

SireDam

1

0.184 (0.048)

0.189 (0.052)

2

0.203 (0.049)

0.207 (0.055)

3

0.248 (0.047)

0.243 (0.056)

4

0.256 (0.051)

0.252 (0.056)

5

0.325 (0.052)

0.325 (0.060)

6

0.370 (0.051)

0.368 (0.063)

7

0.179 (0.047)

0.174 (0.052)

8

0.213 (0.048)

0.218 (0.053)

9

0.329 (0.053)

0.330 (0.061)

10

0.210 (0.050)

0.205 (0.056)

Average

0.251

0.251

Input parameter

0.200

0.200

  1. 1The two models presented are an animal threshold model using the new algorithm for sampling of additive genetic variance (AnimB) and a standard sire-dam threshold model (SireDam); posterior standard deviations are given in parentheses.