Heritability and expected progeny difference (EPD) for stayability based on progeny records of 4,180 sires from the Programa de Melhoramento Genético da Raça Nelore were estimated. Bayesian analyses for threshold and linear models were performed using the software multiple trait Gibbs sampler for animal model. Gibbs size chain of 225,000, burn-in of 25,000 and thinning interval of 1,000 cycles were considered for implementation purpose. The heritability estimated by linear model (.065) was lower than for threshold model (0.158). The heritability estimate for transformed continuous threshold scale was .13±.05 which is close to the heritability estimate for threshold model. The high rank correlation between the solutions from both models (97%) suggests the stayability analysis under Bayesian perspective does not influence the rank of the animal EPD. Therefore linear model analysis for transformed threshold stayability data, which has a reduced processing time, should be used.
beef cattle; Nellore; stayability; Bayesian; linear model; threshold
