Table 2.

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

		MSE $\widehat{\theta }$				MSE ${\widehat{D}}^{dam}$
		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	0.061	0.030	0.009	0.002	0.014	0.008	0.002	0.001
	EMT0	0.001	0.002	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001
	EMDP	0.007	0.004	0.001	0.001	0.002	0.001	0.001	0.001
θ = 0.20, Ddam = 0.05	EMT05	0.030	0.022	0.018	0.008	0.008	0.006	0.004	0.002
	EMT0	0.014	0.013	0.012	0.010	0.003	0.003	0.002	0.002
	EMDP	0.026	0.020	0.014	0.010	0.006	0.005	0.003	0.002
θ = 0.40, Ddam = 0.15	EMT05	0.032	0.026	0.020	0.006	0.008	0.006	0.004	0.002
	EMT0	0.048	0.045	0.035	0.099	0.011	0.010	0.007	0.013
	EMDP	0.038	0.034	0.032	0.097	0.009	0.007	0.007	0.012

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.