Figure 3.—
Maximum-likelihood estimates of γ on data simulated with ρ = θ = 1/kb using our model. Estimates obtained for data with high levels of gene conversion activity are very encouraging (999 of 1000 within a factor of 2 of the truth), but we tend to overestimate the level of gene conversion present when it is low or nonexistent. This is inevitable due to the true value being at the boundary of the range of possible values.