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Table 5 Success rate (%) of data analysis methods for a number of additional nuclear loci; DNA sequences were simulated for two species, for a sample size n = 10 and a speciation time T = 500 (N/2); the mutation parameter θ was either 3 (A) or 30 (B).

From: DNA barcode analysis: a comparison of phylogenetic and statistical classification methods

Number of

nuclear loci (nl)

NJ

PhyML

1-NN

CART

RF

Kernel

P < 0.05

P < 0.01

(A) θ = 3

        

0 †

87.25

86.30

87.30*

87.15

86.40

87.15

  

1

88.05 ¶

87.10 ¶

91.40 *

89.70

83.55 ¶

83.70 ¶

4

4

2

90.60 ¶

90.35 ¶

95.00 *

93.20 ¶

86.25 ¶

86.80 ¶

5

4

3

92.80 ¶

92.40 ¶

96.20 *

95.05

88.95 ¶

89.75 ¶

4

4

4

94.70 ¶

94.60 ¶

97.70 *

96.55 ¶

91.30 ¶

91.90 ¶

5

4

(B) θ = 30

        

0 †

96.10

96.20 *

95.55

93.50 ¶

95.25

94.00 ¶

1

1

1

96.00

96.20

96.80

95.95

97.00*

96.10

  

2

98.55*

98.55*

98.35

98.05

98.15

97.60

  

3

99.40

99.30

99.50 *

98.95 ¶

99.40

98.75

1

1

4

99.75 *

99.70

99.75 *

99.50

99.75 *

99.50

  
  1. * Best score
  2. ¶significantly below the best score. Columns 8 and 9 indicate the number of methods with p-values below 0.05 and 0.01 respectively.
  3. † Focal set of parameters, for comparison across tables.