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Table 3 Parameter estimation for the continuously varying birth-death process.

From: A Bayesian framework to estimate diversification rates and their variation through time and space

Simulation settings

   

Estimates

  

no. of tips

λ

μ

k

λMEAN(rel. error)

μMEAN(rel. error)

kMEAN(rel. error)

50

1

0.1

0.25

1.91 (0.91)

0.50 (3.99)

0.23 (-0.08)

100

1

0.1

0.25

1.68 (0.68)

0.34 (2.38)

0.19 (-0.25)

50

5

0

0.95

3.72 (-0.26)

0.31 (-)

0.75 (-0.21)

100

5

0

0.95

5.22 (0.04)

0.33 (-)

0.97 (0.02)

  1. Estimates of speciation (λ) and extinction (μ) rates and the k parameter are inferred using the variable rate birth-death model (SPVAR), averaged over 100 phylogenies. Relative errors are given in parenthesis.