Table 2.
Point estimates for the coverage probabilities of the 2 log-likelihood confidence intervals for Nσ2.
| No. of copies of allele | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simulation Model | L | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 |
| Brownian Birth Process | 5 | 0.962 | 0.954 | 0.962 | 0.950 | 0.938 |
| 10 | 0.970 | 0.976 | 0.960 | 0.938 | 0.954 | |
| 15 | 0.956 | 0.962 | 0.958 | 0.962 | 0.954 | |
| 20 | 0.958 | 0.952 | 0.942 | 0.938 | 0.914 | |
| Lattice Model | 5 | 0.766 | 0.804 | 0.864 | 0.856 | 0.910 |
| 10 | 0.432 | 0.530 | 0.680 | 0.706 | 0.778 | |
| 15 | 0.232 | 0.370 | 0.492 | 0.576 | 0.698 | |
| 20 | 0.142 | 0.272 | 0.424 | 0.518 | 0.634 | |