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Table 7 Observed values (prolificacy, variance) and estimated values with HTM’ [thresholds, different gap between the first thresholds (\({{\Delta }}_{1 - 2}\)), ratio (R), prolificacy, variance, and percentage of the simple (% LS 1), double (% LS 2), triplet (% LS 3) and quadruplet (% LS 4)] for two individuals

From: Genetic heteroscedastic models for ordinal traits: application to sheep litter size

Observed values

Estimated values with HTM’ model

Ind

Prolificacy

Variance

\(\tau_{1}^{'}\)

\(\tau_{2}^{'}\)

\(\tau_{3}^{'}\)

\({{\Delta }}_{1 - 2}\)

\(R\)

Prolificacy

Variance

% LS1

% LS2

% LS3

% LS4+

1

2.00

0.50

−0.63

0.92

2.16

1.55

1.8

2.09

0.54

16

53

25

6

2

2.00

0.33

−0.89

0.86

2.28

1.75

1.8

2.02

0.38

21

64

15

0