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

TABLE 9.

Migration rate estimates when sampling 100 individuals per population

Parameter True value Posterior estimate RMSE 95% HPDI
m11 0.700 0.710 <0.001 (0.647; 0.772)
m12 0.023 0.020 0.018 (0.004; 0.038)
m13 0.003 0.002 0.218 (0.000; 0.006)
m14 0.274 0.269 <0.001 (0.208; 0.323)
m21 0.018 0.020 0.014 (0.005; 0.038)
m22 0.700 0.710 <0.001 (0.647; 0.772)
m23 0.227 0.220 0.001 (0.165; 0.277)
m24 0.055 0.050 0.009 (0.023; 0.079)
m31 0.259 0.256 <0.001 (0.198; 0.317)
m32 0.028 0.025 0.009 (0.007; 0.046)
m33 0.700 0.704 <0.001 (0.640; 0.766)
m34 0.013 0.014 0.013 (0.002; 0.029)
m41 0.149 0.142 0.002 (0.097; 0.190)
m42 0.081 0.079 0.001 (0.045; 0.115)
m43 0.070 0.064 0.007 (0.033; 0.098)
m44 0.700 0.715 <0.001 (0.652; 0.777)

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.