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Genet. Sel. Evol. 37 (2005) 615–634 615 c INRA, EDP Sciences, 2005 DOI: 10.1051/gse:2005018 Original article A simulation study for the analysis of uncertain binary responses: Application to first insemination success in beef cattle a∗ a a ,b ∗∗ Robyn L. S , Matthew L. S , Romdhane R , J. Keith Ba a Animal and Dairy Science Department, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA b Department of Statistics, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA (Received 5 July 2004; accepted 6 August 2005) Abstract – A simulation was carried out to investigate the methods of analyzing uncertain bi- nary responses for success or failure at first insemination. A linear mixed model that included, herd, year, and month of mating as fixed effects; and unrelated service sire, sire and residual as random effects was used to generate binary data. Binary responses were assigned using the difference between days to calving and average gestation length. Females deviating from av- erage gestation length lead to uncertain binary responses. Thus, the methods investigated were the following: (1) a threshold model fitted to certain (no uncert