Table 5.

Theoretically predicted$\mathbf{s}\mathbf{.}\mathbf{e}\mathbf{.}\left({\widehat{\mathbf{\sigma }}}_{{\mathit{A}}_{\mathbf{T}}}^{\mathbf{2}}\right)$,$\mathbf{s}\mathbf{.}\mathbf{d}\mathbf{.}\left({\widehat{\mathbf{\sigma }}}_{{\mathit{A}}_{\mathbf{T}}}^{\mathbf{2}}\right)$^§ and$\overline{\mathbf{s}\mathbf{.}\mathbf{e}\mathbf{.}\left({\widehat{\mathbf{\sigma }}}_{{\mathit{A}}_{\mathbf{T}}}^{\mathbf{2}}\right)}$^§§ for three group compositions

	Scenario§§§	$$\mathbf{s}.\mathbf{e}.\left({\widehat{\mathbf{\sigma }}}_{{\mathit{A}}_{\mathbf{T}}}^{\mathbf{2}}\right)$$	$$\mathbf{s}\mathbf{.}\mathbf{d}\mathbf{.}\left({\widehat{\mathbf{\sigma }}}_{{\mathit{A}}_{\mathbf{T}}}^{\mathbf{2}}\right)\mathbf{\pm }\mathbf{s}\mathbf{.}\mathbf{d}.$$	$$\overline{\mathbf{s}\mathbf{.}\mathbf{e}\mathbf{.}\left({\widehat{\mathbf{\sigma }}}_{{\mathit{A}}_{\mathbf{T}}}^{\mathbf{2}}\right)}\mathbf{\pm }\mathbf{s}\mathbf{.}\mathbf{d}\mathbf{.}$$
Four families	1	1.88	2.01 ± 0.14	1.85 ± 0.13
Two families	6	1.30	1.23 ± 0.09	1.23 ± 0.08
One family	7	0.92	0.81 ± 0.06	0.92 ± 0.05

^§$\mathrm{s}.\mathrm{d}.\left({\widehat{\mathrm{\sigma }}}_{A_{\mathrm{T}}}^2\right)$ based on 100 ${\widehat{\mathrm{\sigma }}}_{A_{\mathrm{T}}}^2$’s reported by ASReml.

^§§$\overline{\mathrm{s}.\mathrm{e}.\left({\widehat{\mathrm{\sigma }}}_{A_{\mathrm{T}}}^2\right)}$ based on 100 s.e.’s reported by ASReml.

^§§§${\mathrm{\sigma }}_{A_{\mathrm{D}}}^2$ and ${\mathrm{\sigma }}_{A_{\mathrm{I}}}^2$ were set to 1.00; ${\mathrm{\sigma }}_{A_{\mathrm{DI}}}$ was set to 0.00; ${\mathrm{\sigma }}_{E_{\mathrm{D}}}^2$ and ${\mathrm{\sigma }}_{E_{\mathrm{I}}}^2$ were set to 2.00; ${\mathrm{\sigma }}_{E_{\mathrm{DI}}}$ was set to 0.00.