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Table 1 Efficiency of alternative MCMC samplers for BayesB

From: A fast and efficient Gibbs sampler for BayesB in whole-genome analyses

 

Alternative MCMC samplers

MH

Efficient MH

Single-site Gibbs

Joint Gibbs

Gibbs with pseudo prior

Computing time

90,009

70,714

52,452

44,726

47,043

Effective sample size

25,262

24,588

24,684

26,757

25,036

Effective samples/s

0.280

0.347

0.471

0.598

0.532

  1. Efficiency of alternative MCMC samplers for BayesB. Results are given for the computing time in seconds to obtain 50,000 samples, effective sample size and effective samples/s for BayesB using Metropolis–Hastings (MH), single-site Gibbs sampler, joint Gibbs sampler and Gibbs sampler with pseudo priors
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