Table 2 Proportion of correct assignments to 9600 simulated unknown parents for pools of one, two and three individuals using a pooling-by-phenotype approach.

From: Maximum likelihood parentage assignment using quantitative genotypes

Method

Pools of 1

Pools of 2

Pools of 3

Quantitative maximum likelihood

1.0000

1.0000

0.9817

Discrete maximum likelihood

1.0000

0.9996

0.1058

Exclusion

1.0000

0.9908

0.1565

Least squares

1.0000

0.9871

0.9492

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