Table 3 RMSE values for increasing number of SNPs using fastsimcoal2 under a stable population (λ = 1.0)

From: Estimation of contemporary effective population size and population declines using RAD sequence data

  

5000

10,000

25,000

50,000

100,000

150,000

N = 250

n = 15

0.000357

0.000357

0.000267

0.000201

0.000136

0.000101

 

n = 30

0.000118

0.000234

0.000178

0.00014

0.000103

8.58E−05

 

n = 60

0.000738

0.000367

0.000153

6.30E−05

6.14E−05

5.73E−05

N = 500

n = 15

0.000233

0.00017

0.000105

0.000153

0.000152

0.000147

 

n = 30

0.00019

6.69E−05

8.29E−05

6.43E−05

6.10E−05

8.13E−05

 

n = 60

0.000352

0.000191

8.78E−05

5.30E−05

5.33E-05

5.28E-05

N = 1000

n = 15

0.000217

0.000208

0.000217

0.000208

0.00022

0.000234

 

n = 30

0.000205

8.59E−05

9.19E−05

9.73E−05

0.000115

0.000113

 

n = 60

0.000188

1.18E−04

4.66E−05

4.04E-05

4.52E−05

5.50E−05

  1. Bold values identify the lowest RMSE for a particular combination of population size (N) and individual sampling level (n). Bold and italicized values identify the lowest RMSE for a particular population size