... In animal breeding, the best selection rule, in the sense of maximizing the expected value of the mean of the breeding values of afixed number of individuals selected ... where the 2 rows represent, as usual, the sire effects, and the 2 columns represent the realizations Mo and Mi. The elements of the contingency table in the ith row and ... selected from a fixed number of candidates, is the mean of the marginal posterior distribution of the breeding values (Goffinet, 1983;Fernando and Gianola, 1986). Only because...