TABLE 4.

Effect of admixture time and partial linkage on the estimation of various composite parameters by the ABC and Wang's (2003) methods

		ABC				WANG03
Parameters	tADM	Bias	RMSE	Coverage 95%	Factor 2	Bias	RMSE	Coverage 95%	Factor 2
tDIV/N2
Unlinked loci	5	0.134	0.427	0.99	0.97	−0.976	0.976	0.00	0.00
100	0.226	0.633	0.96	0.85	−0.982	0.982	0.00	0.00
400	0.232	0.636	1.00	0.83	−0.978	0.978	0.00	0.00
Linked loci	5	0.343	0.727	0.97	0.84	−0.975	0.975	0.00	0.00
100	0.315	0.673	0.98	0.89	−0.980	0.980	0.00	0.00
400	0.226	0.636	0.99	0.80	−0.978	0.978	0.00	0.00
tADM /N2
Unlinked loci	5	−0.122	0.534	0.97	0.73	−0.720	0.759	0.20	0.19
100	0.007	0.581	0.99	0.79	−0.841	0.849	0.00	0.00
400	0.039	0.460	0.97	0.88	−0.969	0.970	0.00	0.00
Linked loci	5	−0.478	0.556	0.98	0.45	−0.690	0.734	0.22	0.23
100	−0.019	0.561	0.97	0.69	−0.883	0.889	0.00	0.00
400	−0.048	0.536	0.98	0.78	−0.964	0.965	0.00	0.00
tADM /NA
Unlinked loci	5	−0.531	0.575	0.85	0.37	−0.625	0.639	0.02	0.19
100	0.101	1.489	1.00	0.68	−0.764	0.766	0.00	0.00
400	0.014	0.337	0.98	0.96	−0.904	0.904	0.00	0.00
Linked loci	5	−0.565	0.740	0.83	0.27	−0.773	0.798	0.05	0.09
100	0.059	1.148	1.00	0.65	−0.773	0.776	0.00	0.00
	400	0.018	0.442	1.00	0.88	−0.911	0.912	0.00	0.00

Simulated conditions are 10⁶ simulations, 20 loci, sample size 100 genes, λ = 0.3, t_DIV = 5000, N₀ = N₁ = N₂ = N_A = 300.