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. 2005 Mar 1;2(1):20–27. doi: 10.1186/1479-7364-2-1-20

Table 4.

Fitting the data for each population to the COS map

Population ε M -2lnL df VCOS
AF 1.5323 0.811 82,334 86,019 0.957
CA 1.0659 0.968 59,172 70,186 0.843
CE 1.0231 0.927 70,952 109,645 0.647
AS 1.1859 0.931 37,198 63,758 0.583

ε, M: Malecot parameters; -2lnL: composite -2 log likelihood; df: degrees of freedom; VCOS: residual error variance for the individual population data fitted to the cosmopolitan sample map; COS: Cosmopolitan sample; AF: African-American; CA: UK Caucasians; CE: Utah CEPH founders; AS: Japanese and Chinese.