... separately for three data sets:i) offspring of pure Braunvieh sires, born 1971-1972;ii) offspring of pure Braunvieh sires, born 1973-1975;iii) and offspring of F, bulls, ... for very small h’, since with respect to thequadratic form for q,, H IV and MINQUE converge for 112 - 0, but they are different for qo, where a form is used for ... models of grouping sires were considered. For all methods, the exact variances of the estimators werecalculated for given true variance components and assuming normality of...