Table 3.

Result of calibration and evaluation of number of days to anthesis for 16 maize varieties across multiple locations.

Varieties	Calibration dataset				Evaluation dataset
	Obs	bias	ME	RMSE	Obs	bias	ME	RMSE
Extra Early
Sammaz 54	49	−0.2	0.79	0.54	50	0.4	0.58	0.67
Sammaz 28	48	0.3	0.41	0.58	49	0.3	0.49	0.66
Ife Hybrid 5	50	0.4	0.60	0.77	50	0.2	0.32	0.83
Ife Hybrid 6	48	0.2	0.66	1.07	50	−0.3	0.52	1.12
Early Varieties
Early White	52	−0.8	0.51	1.01	53	0.9	0.52	0.88
Sammaz 32	53	−0.3	0.47	0.88	53	0.2	0.51	0.73
Sammaz 34	52	−0.2	0.79	0.80	53	0.0	0.67	0.76
Sammaz 41	53	−0.4	0.46	0.79	54	0.6	0.43	0.81
Intermediate
M1026−10	56	0.2	0.84	0.99	57	−0.4	0.66	1.01
M1227−12	55	0.3	0.67	0.52	56	−0.6	0.53	0.69
IWDC2	57	0.2	0.50	0.38	57	−0.3	0.47	1.02
M0926−8	58	−0.4	0.42	0.90	57	−0.5	0.51	0.78
Late
Oba Super 9	60	0.4	0.89	0.77	60	0.0	0.73	0.84
Sammaz 11	61	0.2	0.57	1.22	60	0.0	0.49	0.98
TZL-COMP4	62	0.0	0.65	0.56	61	0.2	0.52	0.62
TZBSR	61	0.2	0.44	0.73	61	0.0	0.43	1.01