A simulation study was conducted to address the issue of how purely additive (simple) genetic architecture might impact on the efficacy of parametric and non-parametric genomic prediction methods. For this purpose, we simulated a trait with narrow sense heritability h2= 0.3, with only additive genetic effects for 300 loci in order to compare the predictive ability of 14 more practically used ge...

In life-testing experiments, it is often of interest to predict unobserved future failure times based on observed early times. A point best linear unbiased predictor (BLUP) has been developed in this context by Kaminsky and Nelson (J Am Stat Assoc 70:145–150, 1975). article, we develop joint BLUPs two minimizing the determinant variance–covariance matrix predictors. The advantage applying predi...