TABLE 3.

Point and interval estimate summary of the variance components, narrow-sense heritability h², and dominance proportion d² of the simulated data with high and low dominance variance

	Low dominance						High dominance
	Mean	Median	Mode	REML	HPD 2.5	HPD 97.5	Mean	Median	Mode	REML	HPD 2.5	HPD 97.5
	50.18	49.74	47.92	48.95 (7.45)	36.58	63.90	69.74	68.70	65.46	66.57 (11.34)	47.42	93.80
	4.242	3.657	1.990	2.00 × 10−6 (0.0)	0.05494	9.906	40.13	40.26	39.78	39.05 (6.92)	26.37	53.37
	47.77	48.09	48.94	52.36 (3.98)	38.26	56.10	17.66	17.94	18.83	20.14 (8.68)	0.0175	32.75
h2	0.4893	0.4878	0.4837	0.4832	0.3868	0.5865	0.5436	0.5414	0.5284	0.5293	0.4170	0.6784
d2	4.15 × 10−2	3.58 × 10−2	1.97 × 10−2	1.97 × 10−8	5.63 × 10−4	9.72 × 10−2	0.3152	0.3158	0.3134	0.3105	0.2059	0.4223
a	50.20	49.82	49.39	—	36.38	64.20	—	—	—	—	—	—
a	1.03 × 10−5	1.00 × 10−5	1.00 × 10−5	—	1.00 × 10−5	1.10 × 10−5	—	—	—	—	—	—
a	51.89	51.98	52.76	—	44.66	59.50	—	—	—	—	—	—
a	0.4899	0.4893	0.4874	—	0.3855	0.5900	—	—	—	—	—	—
a	1.02 × 10−7	1.00 × 10−7	9.85 × 10−8	—	8.99 × 10−8	1.17 × 10−7	—	—	—	—	—	—

Simulated values were , , and for the high dominance data and , , and for the low dominance. The Gibbs sampling results are based on MCMC chains with uninformative priors, except for those listed in footnote a. REML standard errors are presented in parentheses.

^aA degree of belief of 1% on .