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Published in final edited form as: J R Stat Soc Ser C Appl Stat. 2014 Apr;63(3):385–404. doi: 10.1111/rssc.12041

Table 3.

Summary results of the simulation study based on M = 100 data sets from a population of 172 unique TCR sequences whose relative abundances are shown in Figure 3. The reported CI lengths are median lengths across simulations.

	Bias		CI Length		Coverage
Model	Mean	Median	95%	99%	95%	99%
homogenous Poisson	−77.2	−77.4	9	11	0.00	0.00
geometric	−35.4	−36.0	34	44	0.11	0.21
Poisson-gamma	2287.1	2001.9	4490	4669	0.00	0.00
Poisson-lognormal	1015.0	678.5	3588	4630	0.56	0.58
Yule	109.8	107.4	123	160	0.00	0.03
semi-parametric	56.75	53.24	173	245	1.00	1.00