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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 18.
Published in final edited form as: Biometrics. 2009 Dec;65(4):1068–1077. doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01222.x

Table 2.

The averaged QTL position, mean curve parameters, maximum log-likelihood ratios (maxLR), entropy and quadratic losses and their standard errors (given in parentheses) for three QTL genotypes in an F2 population under different sample sizes (n) based on 100 simulation replicates (AR(1) Estimator, Normal Data).

Covariance n QTL
Location
QTL genotype 1
QTL genotype 2
QTL genotype 3
maxLR LE LQ
â1 1 1 â2 2 2 â3 3 3
Σ1 100 33.24 (0.77) 29.99 (0.06) 5.03 (0.04) 0.50 (0.00) 28.48 (0.05) 4.99 (0.03) 0.50 (0.00) 27.57 (0.07) 5.04 (0.05) 0.50 (0.00) 37.78 (1.09) 0.02 (0.00) 0.04 (0.00)
400 31.80 (0.32) 30.01 (0.03) 4.97 (0.02) 0.50 (0.00) 28.50 (0.02) 5.02 (0.01) 0.50 (0.00) 27.51 (0.03) 4.98 (0.02) 0.50 (0.00) 128.21 (1.98) 0.01 (0.00) 0.01 (0.00)
Σ2 100 35.28 (1.57) 30.36 (0.09) 4.63 (0.05) 0.48 (0.00) 28.54 (0.07) 5.04 (0.04) 0.50 (0.00) 27.12 (0.09) 5.51 (0.07) 0.52 (0.00) 64.68 (2.53) 2.15 (0.06) 6.57 (0.38)
400 31.96 (0.54) 30.51 (0.04) 4.62 (0.02) 0.48 (0.00) 28.42 (0.03) 5.08 (0.02) 0.50 (0.00) 27.14 (0.04) 5.35 (0.03) 0.51 (0.00) 193.84 (4.65) 2.66 (0.04) 9.94 (0.25)
Σ3 100 46.48 (2.74) 30.39 (0.38) 5.33 (0.09) 0.51 (0.00) 28.01 (0.35) 4.99 (0.07) 0.52 (0.00) 27.85 (0.39) 5.20 (0.09) 0.51 (0.00) 112.66 (2.83) 9.64 (0.13) 73.15 (2.06)
400 43.64 (2.64) 30.60 (0.30) 5.28 (0.06) 0.51 (0.00) 27.64 (0.34) 4.93 (0.07) 0.52 (0.00) 28.38 (0.33) 5.34 (0.08) 0.50 (0.00) 288.87 (6.09) 10.14 (0.07) 80.36 (1.12)

True values: 32 30 5 0.5 28.5 5 0.5 27.5 5 0.5