Table 3

Pearson correlations between predicted and true breeding in the 12 investigated scenarios (average across replications)

Number of records per animal = 20

1a
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
Intercept
 0.79
 0.57
 0.78
 0.57
 0.47
 0.44
Slope
 0.71
 0.51
 0.71
 0.50
 0.43
 0.37
Threshold
 0.35
 0.25
 0.65
 0.37
 0.17
 0.26

Number of records per animal = 10

1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
Intercept
 0.77
 0.59
 0.77
 0.58
 0.46
 0.44
Slope
 0.63
 0.47
 0.66
 0.47
 0.32
 0.36
Threshold
 0.24
 0.16
 0.57
 0.34
 0.12
 0.17

a Scenario numbers correspond to headers in Table 1 and 2 where true parameter values can be found

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