Table 1.

RMSE on estimates of Ψ and Ω sampling the prior and PODS with varying β

β	18 taxon-pairs US Ψ	18 taxon-pairs US Ω	18 taxon-pairs UU Ψ	18 taxon-pairs UU Ω	4 taxon-pairs US Ψ	4 taxon-pairs US Ω	3 taxon-pairs US Ψ	3 taxon-pairs US Ω
0	4.443	0.0314	5.0695	0.064	0.866	0.1347	0.7874	0.0895
0.01	4.4531	0.0273	5.2278	0.0761	0.911	0.102	0.8062	0.0959
0.05	1.5264	0.0276	1.8055	0.0507	0.911	0.146	0.8	0.1048
0.1	0.6164	0.0298	0.8646	0.0392	0.9747	0.1317	0.7681	0.0909

Mean RMSE in estimation of Ψ and Ω averaged across 100 PODS for each of the three data configurations under varying β values. These experiments were conducted with a uniform prior on Ψ, sorted summary statistics vectors, and 3 × 10⁶ samples from the prior distribution