TABLE 1.

Definitions of parameters used in this study

Parameter	Description
K	No. of populations
L	No. of loci
Jl	No. of unique alleles observed at locus l
n	No. of individuals sampled
xilj	No. of copies of allele j at locus l in individual i
xil	No. of copies of alleles at locus l for individual i
xil	Allele information for individual i at locus l
Xi	Allele information for individual i
X	Allele information for all individuals
yklj	No. of copies of allele j at locus l in individuals assigned to population k
	No. of copies of allele j at locus l in individuals assigned to population k, excluding information for individual i
ykl	No. of alleles observed for some locus l in individuals assigned to population k
	No. of alleles observed for some locus l in individuals assigned to population k, excluding information for individual i
pklj	Frequency of allele j at locus l in population k
pkl	Vector containing the allele frequencies for locus l in population k
λj	Dirichlet parameter for frequency of allele j
λ0	Sum of the Dirichlet parameters for some locus and population
zi	Assignment of individual i to a population [zi ∈ (1, …, K)]
z	Allocation vector containing the assignments of the n individuals to populations [i.e., z = (z1, z2, …, zn)]
α	Parameter of the Dirichlet process prior model that controls the “clumpiness” of the process
S(n, k)	Stirling no. of the second kind (no. of ways to partition n individuals into k populations)
Bn	Bell nos. (total no. of ways to assign n individuals to populations)
nak	Stirling nos. of the first kind
Γ(·)	Gamma function
I(·)	Indicator function, equaling 0 or 1