Fig. 5

PODS results for RMSE on estimation of Ψ under varying prior on Ψ and sorting method for the 18 taxon-pair configuration. Scatterplots of RMSE in estimation of Ψ as a function of true Ψ for 100 PODS under different models of prior distribution on Ψ and applying different sorting strategies for the 18 taxon-pair data configuration. PODS were analyzed using reference tables composed of 3 × 10⁶ samples from the prior. Points in the plot are slightly perturbed to visualize the number of points for each estimate. a) Dirichlet-process prior with sorted summary statistics. b) Dirichlet-process prior with unsorted summary statistics. c) Uniform prior with sorted summary statistics. d) Uniform prior with unsorted summary statistics