Table 1.
Comparison of Alternate Dating Methods (simulated data).
| Method | RMSE | Concordance |
|---|---|---|
| BEAST2 (Latent prior) | 0.89 | 0.890 |
| EPA (FastTree) | 1.64a | 0.453a |
| Linear Regression (IQ-Tree) | 1.89 | 0.572 |
| LSD (IQ-Tree) | 1.23 | 0.805 |
Note.—Only results using the tree inference software that produced the highest score (i.e., had the best fit; see supplementary table S7, Supplementary Material online) are shown. RMSE, root mean squared error and is in years.
a
RMSE and concordance for the EPA method were calculated over sequences where dates were computable.