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Table 6 Heritabilities and 95% credibility intervals from scenarios one to eight for the three different methods used to analyze age at first blood plasma progesterone elevation (AGEP4) phenotypes

From: Comparison of methods for deriving phenotypes from incomplete observation data with an application to age at puberty in dairy cattle

Scenario

Heritability

CAT

AGEVISIT

AUG

1

Early, mid and late visit (EML)

0.39 (0.24,0.58)

0.23 (0.16,0.32)

0.32 (0.21,0.46)

2

Early, mid or late visit (E/M/L)

0.23 (0.13,0.38)

0.19 (0.13,0.28)

0.21 (0.11,0.35)

3

Early visit only (E)

0.36 (0.20,0.58)

0.29 (0.20,0.40)

0.31 (0.14,0.54)

4

Mid visit only (M)

0.23 (0.12,0.39)

0.19 (0.13,0.27)

0.19 (0.10,0.33)

5

Late visit only (L)

0.20 (0.10,0.35)

0.16 (0.10,0.22)

0.14 (0.05,0.26)

6

Early and mid visit (EM)

0.40 (0.24,0.62)

0.22 (0.15,0.30)

0.30 (0.19,0.45)

7

Mid and late visit (ML)

0.26 (0.15,0.42)

0.17 (0.11,0.23)

0.23 (0.11,0.36)

8

Early and late visit (EL)

0.33 (0.19,0.50)

0.19 (0.12,0.26)

0.28 (0.17,0.41)

  1. CAT: the number of the visit where the animal was first observed to have elevated BP4; AGEVISIT: age in day at the visit the animal was first observed to have elevated BP4; and AUG: the continuous variable AGEP4 sampled from between the known lower and upper bounds. Scenarios are described in Fig. 1, and analysis methods are described in Table 2
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