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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Theor Popul Biol. 2011 Feb 4;79(4):155–173. doi: 10.1016/j.tpb.2011.01.005

Table 2.

True probabilities p[t,n] under estimated ML parameters (within the Beta(2 − α, α)-class; MLE on a discrete grid) combinatorial factors c(t, n), and likelihoods p[t,n] for the real datasets.

[GT94] [AP96] [APP98] [APKS00] [CM91] [PC93] [SA03]
n 55 100 109 78 55 103 74
(r̂, α̂) (2.4, 2.0) (0.7, 1.65) (0.6, 1.55) (0.7, 1.65) (0.8, 1.4) (0.6, 1.4) (0.7, 1.3)
p0[t, n] 9.02 · 10−20 2.25 · 10−13 2.19 · 10−14 2.26 · 10−12 3.80 · 10−9 1.64 · 10−10 6.44 · 10−13
c(t, n) 1 2 2 6 6 4 96
p[t, n] 9.02 · 10−20 1.13 · 10−13 1.10 · 10−14 3.77 · 10−13 6.33 · 10−10 4.10 · 10−11 6.71 · 10−15