Fig. 3

Scatter plot of the relationship of the absolute difference in EBV between the whole and partial datasets (\(\varvec{d}_{{\varvec{w},\varvec{p}}}^{\varvec{v}}\)) with the correlation of the EBV based on the partial data with the adjusted phenotypes (\(\varvec{r}\left( {\varvec{y}_{\varvec{v}} ,\hat{\varvec{u}}_{\varvec{v}} } \right)\); left panel) and the correlation between EBV based on the whole and partial data (\(\varvec{\rho}_{{\varvec{w},\varvec{p}}}^{\varvec{v}}\); right panel) across the 1000 partial (random 50%) beef cattle datasets