Table 2 Statistics of official national estimated breeding values for the elite and “randomly selected” groups of cows
From: Inclusion of cow records in genomic evaluations and impact on bias due to preferential treatment
Elite | Random | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Breed | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
Milk yield (kg) | Montbéliarde | 663 | 348 | 304 | 320 |
Normande | 717 | 318 | 203 | 333 | |
Holstein | 1055 | 462 | 318 | 386 | |
SCC | Montbéliarde | 0.26 | 0.69 | 0.04 | 0.59 |
Normande | 0.29 | 0.64 | -0.16 | 0.73 | |
Holstein | 0.40 | 0.63 | -0.05 | 0.69 | |