Estimation of the TMRCA (in generations) of C3* Y chromosomes.

Prior Nc (Na): mean of the prior distribution adopted for randomly sampling the two population size parameters in BATWING (Nc for model 0, Na for model 2). The results were obtained from 2 million BATWING runs per combination of haplogroup, distribution parameter and population model. Given are the median and, in parentheses, the inter-quartile range of the TMRCA (in generations) and of the posterior mean of Nc and Na, each time taken over the last 1 million runs. The first million runs were used for burn-in.