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. 2013 Jun 19;112(3):561–574. doi: 10.1093/aob/mct131

Table 2.

Estimates of empirical averages of individual rates of self-fertilization (s), outcrossing with local pollen (c) and outcrossing with immigrant pollen (m) together with estimates of hyperparameters of the Dirichlet distribution (see text)

Parameter s c m αs αc αm
Mean 0·005 0·498 0·497 0·034 2·307 2·322
Median 0·004 0·498 0·497 0·030 2·233 2·251
Mode 0·003 0·496 0·498 0·021 2·037 2·094
Q2·5 % 0·001 0·462 0·462 0·006 1·406 1·399
Q97·5 % 0·010 0·534 0·534 0·082 3·681 3·634

Mean, median and mode are point estimates given the posterior distribution, while Q values are quantiles of the posterior distribution that limits the 95 % credible interval.