Summary of properties of each of the six best candidate measures—Mutual Information (AvLast and AvFirst variants), GST (AvLast and AvFirst variants), 2Dβ.A (AvLast variant) and Bray-Curtis.

Note that we detail the properties of Mutual Information here, but the properties are the same for each of the other q = 1 measures. ‘True Positive Detections’ was calculated as the percentage of true positives across all step simulations. ‘False Positive Detections’ was calculated as the percentage of false positives across all simulations. ‘True Negative Detections’ was calculated as the percentage of true negatives across all linear simulations. Properties are shaded based on their usefulness as a step detection measure: most desirable properties (blue), undesirable properties (red).