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. 2004 Oct;168(2):1041–1051. doi: 10.1534/genetics.104.031153

TABLE 4.

Proportion of false-positive predictions (number of sites that were wrongly categorized as positively selected divided by the total number of nonpositively selected sites) reported by codeml on simulated data with no positive selection

Proportion of false positives
M2
M2a
M8
M1 vs. M2a
M1a vs. M2aa
M7 vs. M8a
M8a vs. M8a
M8a vs. M8
(1 d.f.)a
Simulation
scheme
Topology Prob: >0.95 >0.99 >0.95 >0.99 >0.95 >0.99 >0.95 >0.99 >0.95 >0.99 >0.95 >0.99 >0.95 >0.99 >0.95 >0.99
Scheme 1
  (100% ω = 1)
A 0.05 0.05 0.33 0.30 0.24 0.23 0.00 0.00 0.02 0.02 0.03 0.03 0.08 0.08 0.03 0.03
B 0.14 0.14 0.28 0.26 0.29 0.29 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.02 0.02 0.01 0.01
Scheme 2a
  (50% ω = 0,
  50% ω = 1)
A 0.12 0.12 0.14 0.14 0.08 0.07 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
B 0.12 0.11 0.13 0.12 0.02 0.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Scheme 2b
  (90% ω = 0,
  10% ω = 1)
A 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
B 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.03 0.03 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Scheme 3
  (50% ω = 0.5,
  50% ω = 1)
A 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
B 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
a

LRT test between the two models at significance level of 0.05.