Table 5.

Posterior summary of the time to the most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) showing as Tree Height parameter per variant estimated using the Birth-Death Skyline model (BDSKY), Coalescent Skyline model (SKY), and Bayesian Integrated Coalescent Epoch PlotS (BICEPS).

Variant	BDSKY	95% HPD	BICEPS	95% HPD	SKY	95% HPD
B.1.1	1.55	1.47–1.66	1.54	1.42–1.68	1.50	1.41–1.62
B.1.111	1.28	1.26–1.31	1.28	1.24–1.33	1.26	1.23–1.30
B.1.1.348	1.11	1.07–1.16	1.13	1.07–1.20	1.11	1.06–1.18
B.1.420	1.09	1.06–1.12	1.16	1.12–1.20	1.13	1.12–1.15
B.1.1.7 (Alpha)	0.87	0.80–0.94	0.85	0.75–0.95	0.83	0.75–0.92
P.1 (Gamma)	1.07	0.9–1.2	1.07	0.93–1.39	1.03	0.9–1.13
B.1.617+AY (Delta)	1.68	1.51–1.86	1.63	1.43–1.83	1.63	1.43–1.85
B.1.621 (Mu)	0.72	0.62–0.90	0.66	0.62–0.73	0.70	0.62–0.80
B.1.1.7 (Alpha)	0.52	0.45–0.60	0.48	0.39–0.57	0.50	0.41–0.60
C.37 (Lambda)	0.70	0.60–0.80	0.64	0.52–0.77	0.68	0.56–0.82
Omicron	0.70	0.60–0.80	0.64	0.52–0.77	0.68	0.56–0.82

Each value is numerical as a year.