... article Estimation of variance components of threshold characters by marginal posterior modes and means via Gibbs samplingI HoescheleB TierVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State ... model.The marginal posterior mode of heritability was computed by a grid search of theRao-Blackwell estimate (eg, Gelfand et al, 1990) of the marginal posterior density of a2 ... MaximumLikelihood, and Bayesian estimation of variance components. J Stat Comp Simul 33,149-160Hoeschele I, Foulley JL, Gianola D (1987) Estimation of variance components with...