Author: Aimee Lee Houde
Date: 2026-03-15

# Advanced Normal Data Example

#### Aimee Lee Houde

#### 2026-03-15

In this vignette, the `fullfact` package is explored using advanced (functions designated by the number 2) for the standard model, i.e. containing random effects for dam, sire, and dam by sire, for normal data type or error structure, with the options of including additional random effects for one position (e.g. tank) and/or one block effect (e.g. several blocks of 2 \(\times\) 2 factorial matings).

Simple (functions designated by no number) for the standard model only is explored in the vignette Simple Normal Data Example.

Expert (functions designated by the number 3) for the standard model with the ability of the user to include additional fixed and/or random effects, such as a model including environment treatments and their interactions is explored in the vignette Expert Normal Data Example.

Non-normal error structures (e.g. binary, proportion, and/or count data types) are explored in another three vignettes: (1) Simple Non-normal Data Example, (2) Advanced Non-normal Data Example, and (3) Expert Non-normal Data Example.

## Load the package and example data

The example data set is an 11 \(\times\) 11 full factorial mating: 11 dams and 11 sires with all combinations resulting in 121 families. There are 10 observations per family or 5 observations for each of two replicates per family.

    library("fullfact")
    data(chinook_length)
    head(chinook_length)
    #>   family repli dam sire tray cell length egg_size
    #> 1     f1    r1  d1   s1   t7   1A   22.7     7.27
    #> 2     f1    r2  d1   s1   t8   1A   22.0     7.27
    #> 3     f1    r1  d1   s1   t7   1A   23.8     7.27
    #> 4     f1    r2  d1   s1   t8   1A   21.8     7.27
    #> 5     f1    r1  d1   s1   t7   1A   22.6     7.27
    #> 6     f1    r2  d1   s1   t8   1A   22.4     7.27

Displayed are columns for family identities (ID), replicate ID, dam ID, sire ID, incubation tray ID, incubation cell ID (within tray), Chinook salmon length (mm) at hatch, and dam egg size (mm).

## Observed variance components

Model random effects are dam, sire, and dam by sire. Options to include one random position and/or one random block effect(s). Extracts the dam, sire, dam, dam by sire, and residual variance components. Calculates the total variance component. Calculates the additive genetic, non-additive genetic, and maternal variance components. Extracts optional position and block variance components.

Assuming the effects of epistasis are of negligible importance, the additive genetic variance (VA) component is calculated as four times the sire (VS), the non-additive genetic variance (VN) component as four times the dam by sire interaction (VD\(\times\)S), and the maternal variance component (VM) as the dam (VD) – sire (VS) (Lynch and Walsh 1998, p. 603). When there is epistasis, those variance components will be overestimated and this may explain why the percentage of phenotypic variance explained by the components can add up to more than 100% in certain cases.

`position` is the column name containing position factor information.

`block` is the column name containing block factor information.

Significance values for the random effects are determined using likelihood ratio tests (Bolker et al. 2009).

Lynch M, Walsh B. 1998. Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits. Sinauer Associates, Massachusetts.

Bolker BM, Brooks ME, Clark CJ, Geange SW, Poulsen JR, Stevens MHH, White J-SS. 2009. Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24(3): 127-135. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2008.10.008

For this example, we explore position (tray) effects for Chinook salmon length.

    length_mod2<- observLmer2(observ=chinook_length,dam="dam",sire="sire",response="length",
    position="tray")
    #> [1] "2026-03-15 20:04:14 PDT"
    #> Time difference of 0.3197329 secs
    length_mod2
    #> $random
    #>     effect  variance  percent     d.AIC      d.BIC    Chi.sq      p.value
    #> 1 dam:sire 0.1798015 17.28121 141.49865 136.400272 143.49865 4.573043e-33
    #> 2     tray 0.1077362 10.35482 121.50329 116.404911 123.50329 1.082069e-28
    #> 3     sire 0.0000000  0.00000  -2.00000  -7.098376   0.00000 1.000000e+00
    #> 4      dam 0.2029810 19.50905  29.98924  24.890867  31.98924 1.550287e-08
    #>
    #> $other
    #>   component  variance   percent
    #> 1  Residual 0.5499266  52.85493
    #> 2     Total 1.0404453 100.00000
    #>
    #> $calculation
    #>   component  variance  percent
    #> 1  additive 0.0000000  0.00000
    #> 2    nonadd 0.7192061 69.12483
    #> 3  maternal 0.2029810 19.50905

Produces a list object containing three data frames. Each data frame contains the raw variance components and the variance components as a percentage of the total variance component. The first data frame also contains the difference in AIC and BIC, and likelihood ratio test Chi-square and p-value for all random effects.

Note

Default is Restricted maximum likelihood (REML) as `ml = F`. Option for maximum likelihood (ML) is `ml = T`.

Maximum likelihood (ML) estimates the parameters that maximize the likelihood of the observed data and has the advantage of using all the data and accounting for non-independence (Lynch and Walsh 1998, p. 779; Bolker et al. 2009). On the other hand, ML has the disadvantage of assuming that all fixed effects are known without error, producing a downward bias in the estimation of the residual variance component. This bias can be large if there are lots of fixed effects, especially if sample sizes are small. Restricted maximum likelihood (REML) has the advantage of not assuming the fixed effects are known and averages over the uncertainty, so there can be less bias in the estimation of the residual variance component. However, REML only maximizes a portion of the likelihood to estimate the effect parameters, but is the preferred method for analyzing large data sets with complex structure.

## Statistical Power analysis

Power values are calculated by stochastically simulating data for a number of iterations and then calculating the proportion of P-values less than \(\alpha\) (e.g. 0.05) for each component (Bolker 2008). Simulated data are specified by inputs for variance component values and the sample sizes.

Bolker BM. 2008. Ecological Models and Data in R. Princeton University Press, Princeton.

Defaults are `alpha = 0.05` for 5%, `nsim = 100` for 100 simulations, and `ml = F` for REML.

`varcomp` is a vector of dam, sire, dam by sire, residual, position and/or block variance components, i.e. c(dam,sire,dam \(\times\) sire,residual,position/block). If there is a position and a block, c(dam,sire,dam \(\times\) sire,residual,position,block).

`nval` is a vector of dam, sire, offspring per family, and offspring per position or number of block sample sizes, i.e. c(dam,sire,offspring,position/block). If there is a position and a block, c(dam,sire,offspring,position,block).

`position` is optional number of positions.

`block` is optional vector of dams and sires per block, e.g. c(2,2).

For this example, the variance components of `observLmer2` above are used (i.e. dam= 0.2030, sire= 0, dam \(\times\) sire= 0.1798, residual= 0.5499, tray= 0.1077) and the sample size of the Chinook salmon data set (i.e. dam= 11, sire= 11, offspring= 10, offspring per position= 110). Position was represented by 11 trays. The actual design was composed of 16 trays with 55–80 offspring each. However, `powerLmer2` uses an equal number of offspring per position, so the number of trays was decreased from 16 to 11.

Full analysis is 100 simulations. Example has 25 simulations.

    #>powerLmer2(varcomp=c(0.2030,0,0.1798,0.5499,0.1077),nval=c(11,11,10,110),position=11) #full
    #25 simulations
    powerLmer2(varcomp=c(0.2030,0,0.1798,0.5499,0.1077),nval=c(11,11,10,110),position=11,nsim=25)
    #> [1] "2026-03-15 20:04:14 PDT"
    #> [1] "Starting simulation: 1"
    #> [1] "Starting simulation: 2"
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    #> [1] "Starting simulation: 25"
    #> Time difference of 9.129277 secs
    #>       term   n var_in     var_out power
    #> 1      dam  11 0.2030 0.216921108  0.96
    #> 2     sire  11 0.0000 0.001993149  0.00
    #> 3 dam.sire 121 0.1798 0.177704725  1.00
    #> 4 position  11 0.1077 0.127768832  1.00
    #> 5 residual  NA 0.5499 0.558408589    NA

    #Block examples using 8 dams, 8 sires (as four 2x2 blocks), and 20 offspring per family
    #>powerLmer2(varcomp=c(0.2030,0,0.1798,0.5499,0.1077),nval=c(8,8,20,4),block=c(2,2))
    #>powerLmer2(varcomp=c(0.2030,0,0.1798,0.5499,0.1077,0.1077),nval=c(8,8,20,40,4),position=8,
    #>block=c(2,2)) #with position

There is sufficient power (\(\ge\) 0.8) for dam and dam by sire variance components, whereas there is insufficient power (< 0.8) for the sire variance component. Albeit, the sire component is near zero, so the low power may be an artifact. There was also sufficient power for position (tray) variance components. In the cases of insufficient power, the sample size of dam, sire, and/or offspring can be increased until there is sufficient power.

Taking the reverse approach (can the sample size of dam, sire, or offspring be reduced while maintaining sufficient power?) using the same variance components and offspring sample size, dam and sire sample sizes could be reduced from 11 to 7. The position number and its sample size was reduced accordingly, i.e. 7 dams \(\times\) 7 sires \(\times\) 10 offspring = 490, divided by 10 trays for 49 offspring each.

    #>powerLmer2(varcomp=c(0.2030,0,0.1798,0.5499,0.1077),nval=c(7,7,10,49),position=10) #full
    #25 simulations
    powerLmer2(varcomp=c(0.2030,0,0.1798,0.5499,0.1077),nval=c(7,7,10,49),position=10,nsim=25)
    #> [1] "2026-03-15 20:04:23 PDT"
    #> [1] "Starting simulation: 1"
    #> [1] "Starting simulation: 2"
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    #> [1] "Starting simulation: 25"
    #> Time difference of 5.778121 secs
    #>       term  n var_in     var_out power
    #> 1      dam  7 0.2030 0.227538713     1
    #> 2     sire  7 0.0000 0.009880627     0
    #> 3 dam.sire 49 0.1798 0.161913766     1
    #> 4 position 10 0.1077 0.115377343     1
    #> 5 residual NA 0.5499 0.547948554    NA

## Bootstrap confidence intervals

Confidence intervals for the additive genetic, non-additive genetic, and maternal variance components can be produced using the bootstrap-t resampling method described by Efron and Tibshirani (1993, p. 160‒162). Observations are resampled with replacement until the original sample size is reproduced. The resampled data are then used in the model and the additive genetic, non-additive genetic, and maternal variance components are extracted. The process is repeated for a number of iterations, typically 1,000 times, to produce a distribution for each component. The confidence interval lower and upper limits and median are extracted from the distribution.

Efron B, Tibshirani R. 1993. An Introduction to the Bootstrap. Chapman and Hall, New York.

### Resample observations

The `resampRepli` function is used to bootstrap resample observations grouped by replicate ID within family ID for a specified number of iterations to create the resampled data set. A similar `resampFamily` function is able to resample observations grouped by family ID only.

`copy` is a vector of column numbers (to copy the contents). Does not need to contain the family and/or replicate columns.

Full analysis is 1000 iterations. Example has 5 iterations.

    #>resampRepli(dat=chinook_length,copy=c(3:8),family="family",replicate="repli",iter=1000) #full
    #>resampFamily(dat=chinook_length,copy=c(3:8),family="family",iter=1000) #family only
    resampRepli(dat=chinook_length,copy=c(3:8),family="family",replicate="repli",iter=5) #5 iterations

Because of the large file sizes that can be produced, the resampling of each replicate Y per family X is saved separately as a common separated (X_Y_resampR.csv) file in the working directory. These files are merged to create the final resampled data set (resamp_datR.csv).

If using `resampFamily`, the file names are X_resampF.csv per family and resamp_datF.csv for the final resampled data set.

### Iteration variance components

The equivalent to `observLmer2` is available for the final bootstrap resampled data set, i.e. `resampLmer2`.

Default is `ml = F` for REML. The starting model number `start =` and ending model number `end =` need to be specified.

Full analysis is 1000 iterations. Example has 5 iterations.

    #>length_datR<- read.csv("resamp_datR.csv") #1000 iterations
    #>length_rcomp2<- resampLmer2(resamp=length_datR,dam="dam",sire="sire",response="length",
    #>position="tray",start=1,end=1000) #full
    data(chinook_resampL) #5 iterations
    head(chinook_resampL)
    #>   dam1 sire1 tray1 cell1 length1 egg_size1 dam2 sire2 tray2 cell2 length2
    #> 1   d1    s1    t7    1A    23.1      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A    23.1
    #> 2   d1    s1    t7    1A    22.7      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A    22.7
    #> 3   d1    s1    t7    1A    22.9      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A    22.9
    #> 4   d1    s1    t7    1A    23.1      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A    22.7
    #> 5   d1    s1    t7    1A    23.1      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A    22.9
    #> 6   d1    s1    t8    1A    22.4      7.27   d1    s1    t8    1A    22.3
    #>   egg_size2 dam3 sire3 tray3 cell3 length3 egg_size3 dam4 sire4 tray4 cell4
    #> 1      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A    23.8      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A
    #> 2      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A    23.8      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A
    #> 3      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A    23.8      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A
    #> 4      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A    23.8      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A
    #> 5      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A    23.8      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A
    #> 6      7.27   d1    s1    t8    1A    22.4      7.27   d1    s1    t8    1A
    #>   length4 egg_size4 dam5 sire5 tray5 cell5 length5 egg_size5
    #> 1    22.6      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A    22.9      7.27
    #> 2    23.8      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A    22.6      7.27
    #> 3    23.1      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A    22.6      7.27
    #> 4    22.9      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A    22.9      7.27
    #> 5    23.8      7.27   d1    s1    t7    1A    22.7      7.27
    #> 6    22.0      7.27   d1    s1    t8    1A    22.4      7.27
    length_rcomp2<- resampLmer2(resamp=chinook_resampL,dam="dam",sire="sire",response="length",
    position="tray",start=1,end=5)
    #> [1] "2026-03-15 20:04:29 PDT"
    #> [1] "Working on model: 1"
    #> [1] "Working on model: 2"
    #> [1] "Working on model: 3"
    #> [1] "Working on model: 4"
    #> [1] "Working on model: 5"
    #> Time difference of 0.4151981 secs
    length_rcomp2[1:5,]
    #>    dam:sire      tray         sire       dam  Residual     Total     additive
    #> 1 0.2156343 0.1010264 9.658700e-09 0.1933548 0.4996255 1.0096410 3.863480e-08
    #> 2 0.2423708 0.1084802 3.551509e-10 0.1954621 0.5204227 1.0667358 1.420604e-09
    #> 3 0.2204124 0.1072239 3.857906e-10 0.1713985 0.4844660 0.9835008 1.543162e-09
    #> 4 0.1959125 0.1204563 1.996910e-03 0.1931546 0.4919967 1.0035171 7.987638e-03
    #> 5 0.2263470 0.1308195 0.000000e+00 0.2085843 0.4787757 1.0445264 0.000000e+00
    #>      nonadd  maternal
    #> 1 0.8625374 0.1933548
    #> 2 0.9694834 0.1954621
    #> 3 0.8816494 0.1713985
    #> 4 0.7836500 0.1911577
    #> 5 0.9053880 0.2085843

The function provides a data frame with columns containing the raw variance components for dam, sire, dam by sire, residual, total, additive genetic, non-additive genetic, and maternal. Also columns containing the raw variance components for the options of position and/or block. The number of rows in the data frame matches the number of iterations in the resampled data set and each row represents a model number.

### Extract confidence intervals

Extract the bootstrap-t confidence intervals (CI) and median for the additive genetic, non-additive genetic, and maternal values from the data frame of models produced using `resampLmer2`. Also extracts intervals for optional position and block variance components.

Default confidence interval is 95% as `level = 95`.

    #>ciMANA(comp=length_rcomp1) #full
    data(chinook_bootL) #same as length_rcomp2 1000 models
    ciMANA2(comp=chinook_bootL,position="tray")
    #> $raw
    #>   component lower median upper
    #> 1  additive 0.000  0.000 0.030
    #> 2    nonadd 0.713  0.844 0.996
    #> 3  maternal 0.168  0.201 0.233
    #> 4      tray 0.091  0.112 0.133
    #>
    #> $percentage
    #>   component lower median upper
    #> 1  additive   0.0    0.0   2.9
    #> 2    nonadd  69.4   81.3  94.2
    #> 3  maternal  16.7   19.3  22.0
    #> 4      tray   9.0   10.8  12.6

The raw values are presented and are converted to a percentage of the total variance for each model. Defaults are the number of decimal places to round CI raw values as `rnd_r = 3` and to round the CI percent values as `rnd_p = 1`.

The bootstrap-t method may produce medians that are largely different from the observed values. In the present example, the raw 95% CI are a good fit to the observed values. Nonetheless, options are provided below for 95% CI that are a poor fit.

#### Bias and accelerated corrected confidence intervals

The BCa method (bias and acceleration) described by Efron and Tibshirani (1993, p.184‒188) can be used for the correction of bootstrap-t confidence intervals.

`bias` is a vector of additive, non-additive, maternal, position and/or block variance components, i.e. c(additive,non-additive,maternal,position/block), from the raw observed variance components of `observLmer2`. If there is a position and a block, c(additive,non-additive,maternal,position,block).

For this example, additive= 0, non-additive= 0.7192, maternal= 0.2030, and position= 0.1077 from `observLmer2` above.

The ‘bias fail’ warning is if the bias calculation is infinity (negative or positive), e.g. bias contains a zero value, so the uncorrected confidence interval is displayed for the component.

    ciMANA2(comp=chinook_bootL,position="tray",bias=c(0,0.7192,0.2030,0.1077)) #bias only
    #> $raw
    #>   component lower median upper    change
    #> 1  additive 0.000  0.000 0.030 bias fail
    #> 2    nonadd 0.619  0.624 0.735      <NA>
    #> 3  maternal 0.174  0.206 0.240      <NA>
    #> 4      tray 0.081  0.103 0.125      <NA>
    #>
    #> $percentage
    #>   component lower median upper    change
    #> 1  additive   0.0    0.0   2.9 bias fail
    #> 2    nonadd  62.5   62.6  71.5      <NA>
    #> 3  maternal  17.0   19.7  22.5      <NA>
    #> 4      tray   8.0   10.0  11.9      <NA>

`accel` for acceleration correction uses the delete-one observation jackknife data set. See next section.

    data(chinook_jackL)
    #bias and acceleration
    ciMANA2(comp=chinook_bootL,position="tray",bias=c(0,0.7192,0.2030,0.1077),accel=chinook_jackL)
    #> $raw
    #>   component lower median upper    change
    #> 1  additive 0.000  0.000 0.030 bias fail
    #> 2    nonadd 0.619  0.624 0.735      <NA>
    #> 3  maternal 0.174  0.206 0.240      <NA>
    #> 4      tray 0.081  0.103 0.125      <NA>
    #>
    #> $percentage
    #>   component lower median upper    change
    #> 1  additive   0.0    0.0   2.9 bias fail
    #> 2    nonadd  62.5   62.6  71.5      <NA>
    #> 3  maternal  17.0   19.7  22.5      <NA>
    #> 4      tray   8.0   10.0  11.9      <NA>

#### Jackknife confidence intervals

Jackknife resampling is another method for producing confidence intervals.

The equivalent to `observLmer2` is available for jackknife resampling, i.e. `JackLmer2`, using the observed data frame.

Default is delete-one jackknife resampling as `size = 1` and REML as `ml = F`.

Full analysis uses all observations. Example has the first 10 observations.

    #>length_jack2<- JackLmer2(observ=chinook_length,dam="dam",sire="sire",response="length",
    #>position="tray") #full, all observations
    length_jack2<- JackLmer2(observ=chinook_length,dam="dam",sire="sire",response="length",
    position="tray",first=10) #first 10 observations
    #> [1] "2026-03-15 20:04:30 PDT"
    #> [1] "Removing observation: 1 of 1210"
    #> [1] "Removing observation: 2 of 1210"
    #> [1] "Removing observation: 3 of 1210"
    #> [1] "Removing observation: 4 of 1210"
    #> [1] "Removing observation: 5 of 1210"
    #> [1] "Removing observation: 6 of 1210"
    #> [1] "Removing observation: 7 of 1210"
    #> [1] "Removing observation: 8 of 1210"
    #> [1] "Removing observation: 9 of 1210"
    #> [1] "Removing observation: 10 of 1210"
    #> Time difference of 0.847651 secs
    head(length_jack2)
    #>    dam:sire      tray         sire       dam  Residual    Total     additive
    #> 1 0.1798331 0.1078537 0.000000e+00 0.2029751 0.5503930 1.041055 0.000000e+00
    #> 2 0.1798645 0.1075831 0.000000e+00 0.2029644 0.5503499 1.040762 0.000000e+00
    #> 3 0.1798327 0.1069848 6.634044e-11 0.2028003 0.5495369 1.039155 2.653617e-10
    #> 4 0.1799274 0.1074530 0.000000e+00 0.2029821 0.5501989 1.040561 0.000000e+00
    #> 5 0.1798594 0.1079313 8.104640e-11 0.2030077 0.5503460 1.041144 3.241856e-10
    #> 6 0.1797887 0.1078271 0.000000e+00 0.2029536 0.5504038 1.040973 0.000000e+00
    #>      nonadd  maternal
    #> 1 0.7193325 0.2029751
    #> 2 0.7194581 0.2029644
    #> 3 0.7193308 0.2028003
    #> 4 0.7197097 0.2029821
    #> 5 0.7194376 0.2030077
    #> 6 0.7191550 0.2029536

Because the delete-one observation jackknife resampling may be computationally intensive for large data sets, the `JackLmer2` function has the option of delete-d observation jackknife resampling, for which d > 1. The rows of the observed data frame are shuffled and a block of observations of size d is deleted sequentially. For example, delete-5 observation jackknife resampling is specified as `size = 5`, which deletes a block of 5 observations.

Full analysis uses all observations. Example has the first 10 observations.

    #>length_jack2D<- JackLmer2(observ=chinook_length,dam="dam",sire="sire",response="length",
    #>position="tray",size=5) #full
    length_jack2D<- JackLmer2(observ=chinook_length,dam="dam",sire="sire",response="length",
    position="tray",size=5,first=10) #first 10
    #> [1] "2026-03-15 20:04:31 PDT"
    #> [1] "Removing block: 1 of 242"
    #> [1] "Removing block: 2 of 242"
    #> [1] "Removing block: 3 of 242"
    #> [1] "Removing block: 4 of 242"
    #> [1] "Removing block: 5 of 242"
    #> [1] "Removing block: 6 of 242"
    #> [1] "Removing block: 7 of 242"
    #> [1] "Removing block: 8 of 242"
    #> [1] "Removing block: 9 of 242"
    #> [1] "Removing block: 10 of 242"
    #> Time difference of 1.18503 secs
    head(length_jack2D)
    #>    dam:sire      tray         sire       dam  Residual    Total     additive
    #> 1 0.1796353 0.1076707 8.407234e-09 0.2030448 0.5516306 1.041981 3.362894e-08
    #> 2 0.1783484 0.1064265 1.053143e-08 0.2022947 0.5517097 1.038779 4.212574e-08
    #> 3 0.1780753 0.1074578 7.974417e-10 0.2046283 0.5520796 1.042241 3.189767e-09
    #> 4 0.1747961 0.1061887 2.211410e-09 0.2026492 0.5486984 1.032332 8.845642e-09
    #> 5 0.1795326 0.1071453 1.171146e-10 0.2040631 0.5521788 1.042920 4.684586e-10
    #> 6 0.1792863 0.1082385 0.000000e+00 0.2027373 0.5517382 1.042000 0.000000e+00
    #>      nonadd  maternal
    #> 1 0.7185410 0.2030448
    #> 2 0.7133934 0.2022947
    #> 3 0.7123014 0.2046283
    #> 4 0.6991844 0.2026492
    #> 5 0.7181304 0.2040631
    #> 6 0.7171451 0.2027373

Extract the jackknife confidence intervals (CI) and median for the additive genetic, non-additive genetic, and maternal values from the data frame of models produced using `JackLmer2`. Also extracts intervals for optional position and block variance components.

The mean and the standard error of pseudo-values for each variance component are calculated (Efron and Tibshirani 1993, p.184‒188). The standard error is then used with the Student’s t distribution to provide the lower and upper limits for the confidence interval. For delete-d jackknife resampling, M degrees of freedom were used for producing the confidence interval (Martin et al. 2004): M = N / d, where N is the total number of observations and d is the number of deleted observations. Large values of M, such as 1,000, can translate to the delete-d jackknife resampling method approaching bootstrap resampling expectations (Efron and Tibshirani 1993, p. 149).

Martin, H., Westad, F. & Martens, H. (2004). Improved Jackknife Variance Estimates of Bilinear Model Parameters. COMPSTAT 2004 – Proceedings in Computational Statistics 16th Symposium Held in Prague, Czech Republic, 2004 (ed J. Antoch), pp. 261-275. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg.

Default confidence interval is 95% as `level = 95`.

`full` is a vector of additive, non-additive, maternal, total, position and/or block variance components, i.e. c(additive,non-additive,maternal,total,position/block), from the raw observed variance components of `observLmer2`. If there is a position and a block, c(additive,non-additive,maternal,total,position,block).

For this example, additive= 0, non-additive= 0.7192, maternal= 0.2030, total= 1.0404, and position= 0.1077 from `observLmer2` above.

    #full, all observations
    #>ciJack2(comp=length_jack2,position="tray",full=c(0,0.7192,0.2030,1.0404,0.1077))
    data(chinook_jackL) #same as length_jack2 all observations
    ciJack2(comp=chinook_jackL,position="tray",full=c(0,0.7192,0.2030,1.0404,0.1077))
    #> $raw
    #>   component lower  mean upper
    #> 1  additive 0.000 0.000 0.000
    #> 2    nonadd 0.481 0.691 0.900
    #> 3  maternal 0.197 0.244 0.291
    #> 4      tray 0.024 0.056 0.088
    #>
    #> $percentage
    #>   component lower mean upper
    #> 1  additive   0.0  0.0   0.0
    #> 2    nonadd  52.2 69.7  87.2
    #> 3  maternal  20.6 24.4  28.2
    #> 4      tray   3.2  5.9   8.6

The raw values are presented and are converted to a percentage of the total variance for each model. Defaults are the number of decimal places to round CI raw values as `rnd_r = 3` and to round the CI percent values as `rnd_p = 1`.

## Plotting confidence intervals

The `barMANA` and `boxMANA` functions are simple plotting functions for the confidence intervals or all values, respectively, from the bootstrap and jackknife approaches. Default is to display the percentage values as `type = perc`. Raw values can be displayed as `type = raw`.

Within the functions, there are simple plot modifications available. For the y-axis, min and max values can be species as `ymin` and `ymax`, as well as the increment as `yunit`. Also, magnification of the axis unit as `cex_yaxis` and label as `cex_ylab`. The position of the legend can be specified as `leg`. Default is “topright”.

### Bar plot

The `barMANA` function produces bar graphs with the bootstrap-t median (`ciMANA2`) or jackknife pseudo-value mean (`ciJack2`) as the top of the shaded bar and error bars covering the range of the confidence interval for each of the additive genetic, non-additive genetic, and maternal values of a phenotypic trait.

The length of the error bar can be specified in inches as `bar_len`.

    length_ci<- ciJack2(comp=chinook_jackL,position="tray",full=c(0,0.7192,0.2030,1.0404,0.1077))
    oldpar<- par(mfrow=c(2,1))
    barMANA(ci_dat=length_ci) #basic, top
    barMANA(ci_dat=length_ci,bar_len=0.3,yunit=20,ymax=100,cex_ylab=1.3) #modified, bottom

Different traits can also be combined on the same bar plot using `trait` specified in `ciMANA2` or `ciJack2`. The information is combined into a list object. For the example, the jackknife CI is duplicated to simulate ‘different traits’.

    length_ci1<- ciJack2(comp=chinook_jackL,position="tray",full=c(0,0.7192,0.2030,1.0404,0.1077),
    trait="length_1")
    length_ci2<- ciJack2(comp=chinook_jackL,position="tray",full=c(0,0.7192,0.2030,1.0404,0.1077),
    trait="length_2")
    comb_bar<- list(raw=rbind(length_ci1$raw,length_ci2$raw),
    percentage=rbind(length_ci1$percentage,length_ci2$percentage))
    barMANA(ci_dat=comb_bar,bar_len=0.3,yunit=20,ymax=100,cex_ylab=1.3)

The legend is slightly off in the presented html version but is fine with the R plotting device.

### Box plot

The `boxMANA` function produces box plots using all values for the bootstrap-t resampling data set (`resampLmer2`) or jackknife resampling data set (`JackLmer2`).

    oldpar<- par(mfrow=c(2,1))
    boxMANA(comp=chinook_bootL) #from resampLmer2, basic, top
    boxMANA(comp=chinook_bootL,yunit=20,ymax=100,cex_ylab=1.3,leg="topleft") #modified, bottom

Different traits can also be combined on the same box plot by adding a “trait” column to the resampling data set. For the example, the bootstrap-t data frame is duplicated to simulate ‘different traits’.

    chinook_bootL1<- chinook_bootL; chinook_bootL2<- chinook_bootL #from resampLmer2
    chinook_bootL1$trait<- "length_1"; chinook_bootL2$trait<- "length_2"
    comb_boot<- rbind(chinook_bootL1,chinook_bootL2)
    comb_boot$trait<- as.factor(comb_boot$trait)
    boxMANA(comb_boot,yunit=20,ymax=100,cex_ylab=1.3,leg="topleft")

The recommended follow-up vignette is the Expert Normal Data Example, covering the standard model with the ability of the user to include additional fixed and/or random effects, such as a model including environment treatments and their interactions.