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. 2019 Dec 10;51:73. doi: 10.1186/s12711-019-0515-1

Table 2.

Estimates of heritabilities and breeding values in simulated data

True heritability Method Estimate
Heritability Breeding value
Mean MCSE Correlation Regression
0.1 GS 0.10 0.005 0.52 0.99
HMC 0.11 0.004 0.52 0.99
NUTS 0.10 0.001 0.53 1.10
0.3 GS 0.32 0.004 0.68 0.91
HMC 0.31 0.002 0.68 0.93
NUTS 0.30 0.001 0.68 0.96
0.5 GS 0.51 0.004 0.79 0.98
HMC 0.52 0.003 0.79 0.97
NUTS 0.51 0.002 0.79 0.99

MCSE Monte Carlo standard error, GS Gibbs sampling, HMC Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, NUTS No-U-Turn Sampler