Table 3. Averaged estimated values for the recombination over mutation ratio $\frac{\rho }{\theta }$ over ten repetitions.

The coefficient of variation is indicated in brackets.

Scenario	Sequence length	real $\frac{\rho }{\theta }$	eSMC $\frac{\rho }{\theta }$	PSMC’ $\frac{\rho }{\theta }$	MSMC $\frac{\rho }{\theta }$	MSMC2 $\frac{\rho }{\theta }$
“Saw-tooth”	30 Mb	1	0.90 (0.028)	0.93 (0.051)	1.28 (0.050)	0.38 (0.088)
“Saw-tooth”	10 Mb	1	0.94 (0.087)	0.96 (0.11)	1.30 (0.13)	0.39 (0.21)
“Saw-tooth”	10 Mb	5	2.21 (0.040)	2.06 (0.050)	2.77 (0.049)	1.47 (0.062)
“Saw-tooth”	1 Mb	1	0.96 (0.14)	1.00 (0.25)	1.31 (0.28)	0.86 (0.2)
Constant	10 Mb	1	0.96 (0.035)	0.96 (0.056)	1.06 (0.10)	0.81 (0.089)
Bottleneck	10 Mb	1	1.09 (0.026)	1.09 (0.048)	1.02 (0.107)	1.01 (0.033)
Expansion	10 Mb	1	1.05 (0.038)	1.06 (0.059)	1.07 (0.120)	0.98 (0.074)
Decrease	10 Mb	1	0.89 (0.028)	0.90 (0.047)	1.1 (0.186)	0.69 (0.055)

The “saw-tooth” estimations are seen in Fig 1, and the other scenarios are shown in S3–S6 Figs.