Table 5.

Number of times that a population trend was incorrectly identified as declining out of 100 replicate runs for LD-based analysis in NeEstimator under a stable population model (λ = 1.0)

		t 0–t 5			t 0–t 10			t 0–t 15			t 0–t 20
		(&P crit level)			(&P crit level)			(&P crit level)			(&P crit level)
		0.01	0.02	0.05	0.01	0.02	0.05	0.01	0.02	0.05	0.01	0.02	0.05
N = 250	n = 15	26	26	38	24	24	29	24	24	24	20	20	10
	n = 30	29	27	25	20	13	12	15	9	8	3	1	1
	n = 60	8	9	8	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0
N = 500	n = 15	1	1	38	0	0	32	2	2	29	3	3	23
	n = 30	47	41	43	36	21	22	29	16	15	20	8	8
	n = 60	26	24	27	6	6	6	1	1	1	0	0	0
N = 1000	n = 15	1	1	20	0	0	12	0	0	10	0	0	9
	n = 30	16	36	37	11	30	28	16	27	27	7	18	18
	n = 60	21	18	25	14	13	12	4	4	4	1	1	0

Results are presented for increasing intervals of time and by combination of population size (N), individual sampling level (n), and minor allele frequency cutoff (P_crit). Results are based on the analysis of data sets with 10% missing data.