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. 2021 Feb 17;14(2):253–269. doi: 10.1007/s12304-021-09403-5

Table 2.

Fitting parameters for the distributions of four-nucleotide chunks

Virus Entropy Size Negative hypergeometric distribution Pólya distribution
S4 (chunks) K M n C s p n C
A/H1N1 5.3515 3345 2.4536 0.7918 258 0.0057 0.4156 0.3209 259 0.0060
Ball python nidov. 5.3385 8363 2.1873 0.7087 256 0.0043 0.4711 0.3227 256 0.0050
Dengue 5.3219 2681 2.3958 0.7561 256 0.0051 0.4270 0.3144 256 0.0055
Ebola 5.4002 4741 2.3911 0.8336 256 0.0008 0.4154 0.3462 256 0.0010
Feline-CoV 5.3357 7339 2.7359 0.8759 257 0.0011 0.3647 0.3186 257 0.0011
HCoV-229E 5.2899 6830 2.6172 0.7907 256 0.0014 0.3772 0.3007 257 0.0013
HCoV-HKU1 5.1491 7482 2.7836 0.7153 260 0.0057 0.3707 0.2506 261 0.0070
HCoV-NL63 5.1738 6889 2.7545 0.7344 256 0.0035 0.3754 0.2644 255 0.0042
HCoV-OC43 5.2854 7686 2.6510 0.7918 258 0.0027 0.3879 0.2975 257 0.0031
Hepatitis A 5.1923 1870 2.7578 0.8180 239 0.0079 0.3546 0.2877 243 0.0075
Hepatitis C 5.3871 2412 2.4158 0.8378 254 0.0029 0.4173 0.3454 254 0.0030
Hepatitis D 4.9309 421 2.1249 0.6739 178 0.0333 0.4566 0.3217 178 0.0342
Hepatitis E 5.3405 1794 2.3837 0.7811 254 0.0070 0.4297 0.3251 254 0.0077
HIV-1 5.2425 2296 2.5090 0.7853 239 0.0060 0.4090 0.3099 239 0.0066
HIV-2 5.3114 2590 2.5607 0.8015 256 0.0030 0.3892 0.3112 256 0.0029
HRV-A 5.2618 1785 2.7530 0.8492 248 0.0081 0.3418 0.2981 254 0.0077
HRV-B 5.2793 1802 2.6419 0.8706 238 0.0043 0.3774 0.3262 239 0.0042
HRV-C 5.3165 1736 2.5766 0.8688 243 0.0033 0.3890 0.3353 243 0.0033
Marburg 5.3418 4779 2.5061 0.8225 252 0.0020 0.4025 0.3267 253 0.0021
Measles 5.4293 3974 2.3932 0.8767 256 0.0022 0.4186 0.3655 256 0.0022
MERS 5.4040 7530 2.4687 0.8665 256 0.0011 0.4020 0.3498 257 0.0013
Norovirus 5.4015 1900 2.3835 0.8461 253 0.0046 0.4244 0.3536 254 0.0045
Phage-MS2 5.3680 893 2.3100 0.8084 249 0.0107 0.4436 0.3496 249 0.0114
Planidovirus 5.0360 10295 3.0466 0.7017 261 0.0183 0.2449 0.1863 315 0.0161
Polio 5.3837 1860 2.4300 0.8423 254 0.0044 0.4172 0.3452 254 0.0047
Rabies 5.3802 2982 2.4359 0.8425 252 0.0027 0.4148 0.3443 253 0.0028
SARS 5.3825 7438 2.6599 0.9058 256 0.0020 0.3716 0.3395 257 0.0019
SARS-CoV-2 5.3330 7476 2.8260 0.9014 258 0.0022 0.3546 0.3168 258 0.0021
Yellow fever 5.3430 2716 2.6168 0.8421 258 0.0050 0.3962 0.3206 257 0.0059
Zika 5.3377 2699 2.2919 0.7300 257 0.0081 0.4142 0.3181 258 0.0053

Note: Entropies S4 are calculated for the distributions of four-nucleotide chunks using (6)