Fig. 4

Linear regression evaluation of breeding values. Comparison of breeding values estimated using all available data (\(\hat{\mu }_{w}\)) and breeding values estimated using a reduced dataset (\(\hat{\mu }_{p}\)) across ten iterations within validation animals. The solid red line represents \(b_{pw}^{v}\) and the dotted black line represents the expectation of \(b_{pw}^{v}\) = 1 in the absence of dispersion