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. 2009 Dec 2;27(4):905–920. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msp296

Table 2.

False-Positive Rates and Statistical Power for Detecting Migration.

Simulation Model No. 9 10 11 12 13
No. of loci 10 50 50 50 50
m prior term 1 1 0.5 5.0 0.05a
False positivesb 0.025 0.042 0.075 0.200 0.0130
m1 > 2 powerc 0.1 0.25 0.95 0.667 0.600
m2 > (1,2) powerc 0.0 0.0 0.70 1.0 0.050
a

The mean of the exponential prior distribution for migration parameters.

b

The proportion of migration rates having true values of zero and for which the likelihood-ratio statistic did indicate that the estimated migration rate was significantly different from zero.

c

The proportion of migration rates having true values greater than zero and for which the likelihood-ratio statistic was statistically significant so that a rate of zero is rejected.