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. 2015 Oct;28(10):1407–1418. doi: 10.5713/ajas.14.0620

Table 4.

Estimates of variances (diagonal) and (co)variances (below diagonal) between the random regression coefficients1 with standard deviations in parentheses and eigenvalues (λ) of (co)variances matrix of the additive genetic effects and permanent environmental effects with percentage of variance explained in brackets in Leg3,5 model2

Coefficients of additive genetic effect Coefficients of permanent environmental effect


α0 α1 α2 p0 p1 p2 p3 p4
α 0 5.331 (1.06) p0 14.182 (0.93)
α 1 0.278 (0.40) 1.285 (0.28) p1 0.007 (0.35) 2.402 (0.25)
α 2 −0.587 (0.23) −0.221 (0.12) 0.190 (0.09) p2 −0.722 (0.23) −0.053 (0.12) 1.365 (0.11)
p3 0.197 (0.11) −0.394 (0.06) −0.062 (0.05) 0.610 (0.05)
p4 0.319 (0.11) −0.160 (0.06) −0.192 (0.04) 0.095 (0.03) 0.454 (0.05)
λαi3 5.42 (79.6) 1.29 (19.0) 0.09 (1.38) λpi 14.23 (74.85) 2.50 (13.15) 1.38 (7.25) 0.53 (2.81) 0.37 (1.94)
1

αi and pi are the random regression coefficients for additive genetic effect and permanent environmental effect for the ith Legendre’s polynomial, respectively.

2

Leg3,5, adopted model with three coefficients for the additive genetic effect and five coefficients for permanent environmental effect.

3

Eigenvalues of the (co)variances matrix of the regression coefficients of random effects.