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. 2010 Mar 17;121(2):337–351. doi: 10.1007/s00122-010-1313-x

Table 4.

Diagnostics for data quality: counts of markers with best fitting mixture models with 2, 3, 4, or 5 components using BIC, counts of markers with poor, moderate, or good separation of group means, split with respect to model choice according to BIC, and counts of markers with singletons in the first or last component of the best fitting mixture model

Number of components Total
2 3 4 5
Selected as best 158 561 332 124 1,175
Poor separation 1 0 0 0 1
Moderate separation 17 113 157 82 369
Good separation 140 448 175 42 805
Singleton in first component 7 24 19 12 62
Singleton in last component 39 42 85 44 210