Performance of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and No-U-Turn Sampler for estimating genetic parameters and breeding values

Table 3 Estimated effective sample size and autocorrelation in simulated data

True heritability	Method	ESS	Autocorrelation
True heritability	Method	ESS	Lag1	Lag5	Lag10	Lag50
0.1	GS	53	0.97	0.93	0.86	0.54
	HMC	91	0.96	0.88	0.79	0.36
	NUTS	1196	0.64	0.26	0.10	0.00
0.3	GS	204	0.93	0.78	0.62	0.08
	HMC	413	0.84	0.61	0.39	− 0.06
	NUTS	1192	0.64	0.28	0.11	0.00
0.5	GS	263	0.93	0.74	0.57	0.05
	HMC	462	0.84	0.57	0.37	− 0.03
	NUTS	833	0.72	0.38	0.18	0.05

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