Statistical robustness of sets of language families.

The most conservative combined p-value and the number of combined p-values significant at -level = 0.05 for the five methods (Fisher, Z-transform, Hartung, Simes and Makambi) as applied to all 12 datasets for raw and geography-corrected stability distances. The combined p-values significant at -level = 0.05 are in bold). The sets with at least 4 significant combined p-values in both the raw and geography-corrected columns are also in bold. See Materials S1 for full details.†See Materials S1 for the exact composition of these sets. (vs America): randomization only within the Americas. (vs world): randomization not restricted.‡Here we report the results for the maximal composition of “Siberia”, namely Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Tungusic and Yukaghir (the results are very similar when excluding Tungusic). See text and Materials S1 for details.