Table 3.

Comparison of the model presented here vs. the CSIRO for the model final body composition, fleece-free EBW, and wool growth (n=187) using the development data (Table 1), The measured traits are as described in Table 1

Measure	Protein in fleece-free empty body (MJ)		Empty body fat (MJ)		Fleece-free empty body weight (kg)		Clean wool growth (g/d)
Mean of observed values	138.25		426.62		39.60		7.40
CV of observations	12.56		30.43		16.19		26.70

Model	Model	CSIRO	Model	CSIRO	Model	CSIRO	Model	CSIRO
Mean of predicted values	138.33	126.98	422.89	433.57	39.52	37.22	5.35	5.82
Mean bias	−0.08	11.27	3.73	−6.95	0.09	2.39	2.06	1.58
Mean bias %obs mean	−0.06%	8.15%	0.87%	−1.63%	0.22%	6.02%	27.77%	21.37%
RMSE	8.63	14.42	58.73	59.59	2.03	3.24	3.46	3.42
RMSE (%obs mean)	6.24	10.43	13.77	13.97	5.13	8.18	46.69	46.20
r 2	0.75	0.74	0.81	0.81	0.91	0.90	0.00	0.01
Mean bias	0.01	61.05	0.40	1.36	0.18	54.21	35.37	21.40
Slope bias	1.06	2.08	9.01	9.81	8.07	6.33	32.09	45.74
Random error	98.93	36.87	90.58	88.83	91.74	39.46	32.54	32.85

CV, coefficient of variation (%).