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. 2009 Jan;181(1):187–197. doi: 10.1534/genetics.107.080630

TABLE 7.

Estimating θ in the presence of biased amplification

X pe = 0.0 pe = 0.01 pe = 0.05 pe = 0.1 pe = 0.15
16× 100.1 (14.4) 100.0 (14.7) 101.8 (15.2) 102.4 (15.1) 102.6 (15.6)
100.1 (14.4) 100.1 (15.4) 101.9 (15.5) 102.3 (15.4) 103.0 (15.9)
100.2 (14.9) 101.5 (15.6) 102.8 (16.5) 100.6 (15.8) 103.7 (15.9)
99.6 (15.7) 103.7 (16.3) 105.1 (16.7) 105.6 (16.5) 107.3 (18.7)

Here we set θ0 (the generating value of θ) = 100 and use ρ0 = 20. pe is the probability that a minor allele is not sequenced. We report the mean (and RMSE) of the estimates over 1000 simulations.