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. 2009 Apr;181(4):1493–1505. doi: 10.1534/genetics.108.098830

TABLE 4.

Poisson-calculated parameter estimates under nested likelihood models of domestication

Contraction at fixed time (d.f. = 1)
Contraction at unknown time (d.f. = 2)
Bottleneck of fixed size (d.f. = 2)
Bottleneck of unknown size (d.f. = 3)
Models τ = fixed ω = varied P-value τ = varied ω = varied P-value τ = fixed ω = varied τB = varied ωB = 0.1 P-value τ = fixed ω = varied τB = varied ωB = varied P-value
Uncorrected 5,000 0.23 4.01 × 10−8 2,245 0.12 0.51 5,000 64.5 1,835 0.1 0.51 5,000 0.11 3,023 0.9 0.8
Corrected 5,000 0.25 2.27 × 10−5 16,193 0.38 0.11 5,000 2.5 2,591 0.1 0.03 5,000 1.8 2,159 0.08 0.1

See Table 2 for description of parameters. P-values were calculated from a likelihood-ratio test, where a P-value <0.05 indicates the alternative model fits the data better than the previous model. Null model: τ = ∞ and ω =1.