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Table 3 Model selection scores for Koonin and Wolf's artificial data.

From: On universal common ancestry, sequence similarity, and phylogenetic structure: the sins of P-values and the virtues of Bayesian evidence

Model

ln marginal lik (+/- SEM)

ln BF

profile

-7521 (21)

0

CA

-7646 (20)

125

Star

-7813 (20)

292

IA

-8164 (14)

643

  1. Log marginal likelihoods and Bayes factors for Koonin and Wolf's artificial data. Values reported are averages and standard error of the mean (SEM) for the 100 simulated alignments. CA, common ancestry; IA, independent ancestry; BF, Bayes factor