Table A3. Empirical regression coefficients for the contribution of a sire to the mean of all selected offspring in the next generation $\left({\widehat{b}}_c\right)$.

	CV of the SD of gametic GEBV $\left(SD\left({\sigma }_{\widehat{g}}\right)/0.5\right)$
p	0.05	0.10a	0.15	0.20
0.5	0.86	0.79	0.82	0.81
0.2	1.11	1.12	1.11	1.11
0.1	1.41	1.42	1.45	1.50
0.05	1.83	1.77	1.82	1.81
0.01	2.62	2.34	2.55	2.65
0.005	3.08	2.54	2.75	2.87
0.001	3.43	3.17	3.24	3.58

^aThis is the value found in dairy cattle Segelke et al. (2014).