Table 5 Number of times that a population trend was incorrectly identified as declining out of 100 replicate runs for LD-based analysis in NeEstimator under a stable population model (λ = 1.0)

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

  

t 0t 5

t 0t 10

t 0t 15

t 0t 20

  

(&P crit level)

(&P crit level)

(&P crit level)

(&P crit level)

  

0.01

0.02

0.05

0.01

0.02

0.05

0.01

0.02

0.05

0.01

0.02

0.05

N = 250

n = 15

26

26

38

24

24

29

24

24

24

20

20

10

 

n = 30

29

27

25

20

13

12

15

9

8

3

1

1

 

n = 60

8

9

8

1

1

1

1

1

1

0

0

0

N = 500

n = 15

1

1

38

0

0

32

2

2

29

3

3

23

 

n = 30

47

41

43

36

21

22

29

16

15

20

8

8

 

n = 60

26

24

27

6

6

6

1

1

1

0

0

0

N = 1000

n = 15

1

1

20

0

0

12

0

0

10

0

0

9

 

n = 30

16

36

37

11

30

28

16

27

27

7

18

18

 

n = 60

21

18

25

14

13

12

4

4

4

1

1

0

  1. Results are presented for increasing intervals of time and by combination of population size (N), individual sampling level (n), and minor allele frequency cutoff (Pcrit). Results are based on the analysis of data sets with 10% missing data.