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. 2008 Mar;178(3):1491–1504. doi: 10.1534/genetics.107.082560

TABLE 8.

Migration estimates when sampling 50 individuals per population

Parameter True value Posterior estimate RMSE 95% HPDI
m11 0.700 0.702 <0.001 (0.612; 0.790)
m12 0.023 0.026 0.043 (0.003; 0.056)
m13 0.003 0.002 0.070 (0.000; 0.010)
m14 0.274 0.270 0.001 (0.185; 0.356)
m21 0.018 0.011 0.149 (0.000; 0.029)
m22 0.700 0.722 0.001 (0.632; 0.808)
m23 0.227 0.220 0.001 (0.142; 0.301)
m24 0.055 0.047 0.025 (0.013; 0.086)
m31 0.259 0.238 0.007 (0.158; 0.322)
m32 0.028 0.026 0.030 (0.003; 0.055)
m33 0.700 0.725 0.001 (0.637; 0.811)
m34 0.013 0.011 0.033 (0.000; 0.028)
m41 0.149 0.136 0.008 (0.074; 0.201)
m42 0.081 0.075 0.006 (0.031; 0.124)
m43 0.070 0.067 0.001 (0.025; 0.115)
m44 0.700 0.721 0.001 (0.634; 0.808)

Estimates based on the posterior mean, RMSE, and 95% HPDI are reported for synthetic data generated with proportions of nonmigrant alleles set to mii = 0.70 and the level of genetic differentiation set to FST = 0.25.