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. 2002 Apr;12(4):602–612. doi: 10.1101/gr.214902

Table 7.

Estimates of the Number of Groups, K, in the Alu Data Sets

K Alu8 Alu21



in pr(x|k) p(k|x) in pr(x|k) p(k|x)




1 −12560 ∼0 −9700 ∼0
2 −12072 ∼0 −9700 −0
3 −11974 −1 −9585 0.05
4 −12048 −0 −9582 0.95
5 −12050 ∼0 −9668 ∼0

Under the assumption of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, In Pr(X|K) is the likelihood of the data, given K, and P(K|X) is the posterior probability of K, given the data.