Table 3. Maize tester T2. Average (3 environments) Pearson correlations (for 25 replicates) between the observed and predictive values for 3 models (M1-M3) for different sizes and composition of the non-overlapped/overlapped allocation design.

	151/0	131/20	111/40	91/60	81/70	51/100	31/120	1/150
M1 = E+L
151	0.250	0.236	0.224	0.205	0.181	0.152	0.116	0.029
131		0.217	0.203	0.193	0.173	0.150	0.129	0.099
111			0.155	0.141	0.125	0.104	0.095	0.100
91				0.089	0.096	0.105	0.106	0.091
81					0.101	0.104	0.101	0.075
M2 = E+L+G
151	0.367	0.426	0.459	0.474	0.489	0.499	0.510	0.523
131		0.383	0.441	0.471	0.485	0.498	0.506	0.516
111			0.386	0.445	0.471	0.485	0.493	0.507
91				0.371	0.442	0.469	0.486	0.496
81					0.430	0.463	0.478	0.491
M3 = E+L+G+GE
151	0.506	0.526	0.543	0.553	0.563	0.570	0.581	0.593
131		0.517	0.533	0.548	0.558	0.565	0.570	0.573
111			0.516	0.534	0.541	0.555	0.556	0.566
91				0.505	0.530	0.541	0.555	0.561
81					0.526	0.538	0.548	0.552