Table 2

Parameter estimates used to calculate the percentage diversity that survived transmission

Parameter
Meana
HPDb Lower
HPD Upper
ESSc

env V1-V4









NRτ
1216.7
534.4
2033.9
1338.94
NDτ
1014.0
541.2
1538.0
955.71
ttransd
30.9
15.2
46.9
174.57
NRτ(ttrans)
1.6
1.0
3.1
2456.87
δ
0.17
0.06
0.35
2043.08





gag p24









NRτ
926.6
419.9
1512.6
1454.31
NDτ
770.7
413.5
1184.7
1356.90
ttransd
42.4
27.5
53.0
274.51
NRτ(ttrans)
2.0
1.0
4.5
3532.69
δ
0.29
0.07
0.67
3310.56

aMean of the marginal posterior probability distribution of parameter values

bHighest Posterior Density encompassing 95% of the marginal posterior distribution of parameter values

cEffective Sample Size (number of independent samples taken from the posterior distribution of values for a particular parameter)

dEstimated time of transmission in days prior to the day of the fist recipient sample (day 0)

Edwards et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006 6:28   doi:10.1186/1471-2148-6-28