Table 4

Pearson correlation between predicted and true underlying variables in the 12 investigated scenario (average across replications)


Number of records per animal = 20


1a
2
3
4
5
6

Intercept
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
Slope
0.85
0.84
0.89
0.87
0.84
0.87
Threshold
0.42
0.42
0.81
0.80
0.41
0.80


Number of records per animal = 10


1
2
3
4
5
6

Intercept
0.99
0.99
0.99
0.99
0.99
0.99
Slope
0.75
0.74
0.82
0.82
0.73
0.82
Threshold
0.30
0.31
0.75
0.74
0.30
0.74

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

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