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. 2017 Aug 24;17:203. doi: 10.1186/s12862-017-1052-6

Table 2.

RMSE on Ψ and Ω varying the prior on Ψ and the sorting method

18 taxon-pairs Ψ 18 taxon-pairs Ω 4 taxon-pairs Ψ 4 taxon-pairs Ω 3 taxon-pairs Ψ 3 taxon-pairs Ω
US 4.6079;
4.141
0.0298;
0.0295
0.9695;
0.974
0.1052; 0.0952 0.8000; 0.8069 0.0850;
0.087
UU 5.1069; 4.892 0.0867; 0.0856 0.9592; 1.038 0.1242; 0.1139 0.8367; 0.7625 0.0949; 0.091
DPPS 5.339;
5.317
0.0286;
0.0303
1.0149;
0.698
0.1158; 0.1073 0.8246; 0.7937 0.0720; 0.0845
DPPU 5.8853;
5.058
0.0868;
0.0854
0.9;
0.92
0.1262; 0.1245 0.8124; 0.7454 0.0954;
0.092

Mean RMSE in estimation of Ψ and Ω averaged across 100 PODS for each of the three data configurations under each of the four models we tested. In the baseline text of each model “U” and “DPP” refer to the two priors on Ψ that were tested; the uniform distribution and the Dirichlet-process prior, respectively. In the subscript text “S” and “U” refer the sorting method applied; sorted and unsorted summary statistics vectors, respectively. The first value in each cell was calculated from reference tables composed of 3 × 106 samples from the prior. The second value in each cell was calculated using 5 × 107 samples from the prior (in bold)