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Table 4 Summarized the number of times that 95 % HPD includes the true value for both ABC-MCMC and BEAST

From: Estimation of evolutionary parameters using short, random and partial sequences from mixed samples of anonymous individuals

Algorithm

ABC-MCMC

BEAST

No. of Converged Dataset

98

100

No. of 95 % HPD for μ includes the true value (1e-5)

87

93

No. of 95 % HPD for N includes the true value (3000)

91

89

Mean Mutation Rate (Lower quartile, upper quartile)

8.367e-06 (5.892e-06, 1.443e-05)

9.730e-06 (9.104e-06, 1.040e-05)

Mean Effective Population Size (Lower quartile, upper quartile)

2457.4 (1503.0, 3637.9)

2851.688 (2623.965, 3134.936)