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. 2010 May;185(1):313–326. doi: 10.1534/genetics.109.112532

TABLE 4.

Comparison of log Bayes factors (marginal log-likelihood differences) approximated by thermodynamic integration and harmonic mean estimator, for different models and different numbers of loci

LBF for modela
Rank of model
1 2 3 4 5 6 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
Thermodynamic integration
Loci
    1 0 −10 −86 −583 −594 −253 1 2 3 6 4 5
    2 0 −552 −1,946 −3,167 −3,338 −467 1 6 2 3 4 5
    5 0 −697 −2,432 −4,757 −4,826 −542 1 6 2 3 4 5
    10 0 −1,136 −4,266 −8,566 −8,352 −2,328 1 2 6 3 5 4
    20 0 −2,072 −5,914 −12,913 −12,379 −4,835 1 2 6 3 5 4
    50 0 −4,829 −14,683 −30,147 −28,439 −15,245 1 2 3 6 5 4
Harmonic mean estimator
    1 0 −7 −20 −29 −28 −35 1 2 3 5 4 6
    2 0 −76 −83 −123 −70 −168 1 5 2 3 4 6
    5 0 −124 −133 −215 −160 −308 1 2 3 5 4 6
    10 0 −236 −201 −430 −161 −420 1 5 3 2 6 4
    20 0 −438 −565 −1,085 −453 −943 1 2 5 3 6 4
    50 0 −819 −1,266 −2,613 −1,266 −2,723 1 2 5 3 4 6

Model 1 was used to simulate the data and is the reference model.

a

Model numbers are specified in Table 1.