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Table 1 The Pearson correlation and mean absolute error between GP and VBPI estimates to the MCMC posterior means. VBPI outliers were defined as branch length estimates outside the 95% quantile

From: A topology-marginal composite likelihood via a generalized phylogenetic pruning algorithm

Dataset

Correlation

Mean absolute error

GP

VBPI

VBPI outliers omitted

GP

VBPI

VBPI outliers omitted

DS1

0.991

0.102

0.909

0.0009

0.0032

0.0012

DS3

0.999

0.999

0.999

0.0015

0.0007

0.0007

DS4

0.999

0.166

0.970

0.0012

0.0085

0.0019

DS5

0.990

0.930

0.920

0.0044

0.0050

0.0047

DS6

0.995

− 0.017

0.858

0.0011

0.0240

0.0013

DS7

0.999

0.999

0.999

0.0010

0.0003

0.0003

DS8

0.995

0.975

0.950

0.0015

0.0013

0.0012