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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2018 Apr 4;126:116–128. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.033

Table 1:

Signal to Noise Descriptive Statistics

Shallow Filtering Question
Min 1st Quartile Median Mean 3rd
Quartile
Max SD
Before Filtering
Rate 0.0219 0.0488 0.0931 0.0969 0.138 0.1999 0.0493
Prob Noise
(N)
0.0888 0.0918 0.0932 0.0964 0.0946 0.1144 0.00228
Prob
Polytomy
(P)
0.8021 0.8871 0.8896 0.8847 0.8927 0.8974 0.0122
Prob
Signal (C)
0.0134 0.0147 0.0162 0.0219 0.0272 0.0901 0.0109
SN 0.1303 0.1354 0.1486 0.1839 0.226 0.4689 0.0653
After Filtering on Top 20% SN
Rate 0.0219 0.0316 0.0386 0.0377 0.0433 0.0633 0.00636
N 0.0888 0.0938 0.0948 0.0954 0.0965 0.1144 0.00231
P 0.8021 0.8548 0.8663 0.864 0.874 0.8806 0.0106
C 0.0287 0.0320 0.0376 0.0406 0.0487 0.0901 0.00934
SN 0.2398 0.2539 0.2812 0.2951 0.335 0.4689 0.0448
Sites per UCE 18 154 201.5 209.40 255.8 474 26.49
Deep Filtering Problem
Min 1st Quartile Median Mean 3rd
Quartile
Max SD
Before Filtering
Rate 0.0219 0.0487 0.093 0.0967 0.138 0.1999 0.0493
N 0.0892 0.0918 0.0936 0.0936 0.0952 0.1150 0.00233
P 0.8650 0.8900 0.8921 0.8920 0.8942 0.8974 0.00289
C 0.0134 0.0140 0.0144 0.0144 0.0148 0.0200 0.00057
SN 0.1302 0.1318 0.1329 0.1331 0.1341 0.1504 0.00186
After Filtering on Top 20% SN
Rate 0.0219 0.0316 0.0407 0.0528 0.0505 0.1999 0.0364
N 0.0921 0.0951 0.0962 0.0964 0.0975 0.1150 0.00171
P 0.8650 0.8871 0.8886 0.8885 0.8899 0.8936 0.00202
C 0.0143 0.0149 0.0152 0.0152 0.0154 0.0200 0.00036
SN 0.1344 0.1349 0.1356 0.1360 0.1369 0.1504 0.00140
Sites per UCE 1 91 137 213.3 236.5 1365 233.18