Figure 5From: MTML-msBayes: Approximate Bayesian comparative phylogeographic inference from multiple taxa and multiple loci with rate heterogeneityABC algorithm validation for estimator accuracy under simultaneous divergence. Frequency histograms of sets of 100 ABC estimates of E(τ) (panel A) and Ω (panel B) with each test data set simulated under simultaneous divergence (Ω = 0; Ψ = 1) and each simulated draw from the hyper-prior had the number divergence times across five taxon-pairs (Ψ) drawn from its discrete uniform hyper-prior between 1 (simultaneous divergence) and 5 (the number of taxon-pairs). Test data and corresponding priors were simulated given data from 1, 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64 loci each from 5 taxon-pairs. Each point estimate is the mode of 500 accepted points in total out of 1,500,000 simulated data sets using ABC with local linear regression and a summary statistic vector D m that only included mean values of π b across loci from every taxon-pair.Back to article page