Table 1.

Bias of estimated paternal recombination rate and maternal linkage disequilibrium for simulated scenarios.

		bias $\widehat{\theta }$				bias ${\widehat{D}}^{dam}$
		p1 = p2 = 0.5	p1 = p2 = 0.4	p1 = 0.4, p2 = 0.6	p1 = p2 = 0.8	p1 = p2 = 0.5	p1 = p2 = 0.4	p1 = 0.4, p2 = 0.6	p1 = p2 = 0.8
θ = 0.01, Ddam = 0.05	EMT05	0.153	0.079	0.023	0.013	0.073	0.036	0.009	0.002
	EMT0	0.002	0.003	0.001	0.002	−0.001	−0.001	−0.001	−0.001
	EMDP	0.016	0.009	0.002	0.002	0.006	0.002	−0.001	−0.001
θ = 0.20, Ddam = 0.05	EMT05	0.097	0.059	0.043	0.000	0.051	0.031	0.022	0.003
	EMT0	0.012	0.011	0.009	−0.014	0.008	0.007	0.006	−0.002
	EMDP	0.069	0.042	0.018	−0.014	0.036	0.023	0.010	−0.002
θ = 0.40, Ddam = 0.15	EMT05	−0.106	−0.080	−0.053	−0.013	−0.051	−0.039	−0.025	−0.010
	EMT0	−0.187	−0.163	−0.123	−0.252	−0.092	−0.080	−0.060	−0.095
	EMDP	−0.130	−0.109	−0.105	−0.248	−0.064	−0.053	−0.051	−0.093

Start values have been fixed (EMT0 and EMT05) or adapted (EMDP), 100 half-sibs were simulated with 10,000 replicates. The best outcome for each parameter setting is highlighted in bold.