Table 6.

Heritability estimates (diagonal), genetic correlations (above diagonal) and permanent environmental correlations (below and milk yield up to 305 days (305MY) diagonal) between measures of persistency (PS₁ to PS₉)

Trait	PS1	PS2	PS3	PS4	PS5	PS6	PS7	PS8	PS9	305MY
PS1	0.18	0.88	0.99	0.95	−0.92	0.98	1.00	1.00	0.97	0.02
PS2	0.50	0.28	0.94	0.98	−0.64	0.77	0.88	0.90	0.97	0.30
PS3	0.96	0.65	0.33	0.98	−0.86	0.94	0.99	0.99	0.99	0.10
PS4	0.76	0.92	0.85	0.15	−0.76	0.86	0.95	0.96	1.00	0.21
PS5	−0.80	0.10	−0.66	−0.23	0.10	−0.98	−0.93	−0.91	−0.80	0.21
PS6	0.94	0.20	0.82	0.52	−0.94	0.15	0.98	0.97	0.89	−0.11
PS7	1.00	0.51	0.95	0.77	−0.79	0.94	0.31	1.00	0.97	0.02
PS8	0.93	0.49	0.93	0.79	−0.68	0.84	0.91	0.10	0.98	0.04
PS9	0.77	0.87	0.85	0.95	−0.28	0.55	0.77	0.77	0.18	0.17
305MY	−0.07	0.06	−0.01	0.00	0.10	−0.12	−0.08	−0.07	0.29	0.27