Table 2.

Performance of the multispecies coalescent model as implemented in BPP to delimit species under different species conversion rates, c

	Absolute Error			Normalized
c	Max	Min	Mean	Error	RMSE
0.001	31.00	2.00	13.16	12.96	13.16
0.1	29.00	1.00	9.25	5.65	9.25
1	20.00	−1.00	6.01	1.83	6.04
10	14.00	−4.00	3.70	0.92	3.88
1000	11.00	−3.00	3.46	0.72	3.68

“Absolute error” is the difference between the number of inferred species and the number of true species in the simulation. “Normalized error” is the absolute error divided by the number of true species simulated. rmse is the square root of the square of the normalized error.