Table 2.

Sum of squared errors in ancestral state reconstruction, median ratio of stable/Brownian reconstruction error, with data simulated on trees of various sizes under stable processes with varying indices of stability

	Tree size (tips)
α	25	40	60	90	130	175	235	325	440	600
2.0	1.00	1.02	1.01	1.00	1.01	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
1.8	0.97	0.96	0.94	0.92	0.84	0.82	0.81	0.77	0.76	0.73
1.6	0.85	0.79	0.70	0.64	0.61	0.56	0.47	0.47	0.42	0.37
1.4	0.66	0.50	0.49	0.35	0.28	0.29	0.20	0.24	0.16	0.16
1.2	0.48	0.36	0.26	0.15	0.14	0.12	0.11	0.09	0.08	0.07
1.0	0.21	0.16	0.08	0.07	0.06	0.04	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.01