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Table 7 Likelihood comparisons for the different methods when applied to the E. coli K12 chromosome CDS and intergenic sites

From: Separating the effects of mutation and selection in producing DNA skew in bacterial chromosomes

Method

Log (L)

-2 × Diff1

Probability (DF1, DF2)2

Mobs

- 2696055.16

NA

NA

M0

- 2696052.54

reference

NA

M1

- 2696075.49

45.9

5.5 × 10-5 (35, 20)

M2

- 2696239.16

373.2

< < 10-6 (35, 14)

M3

- 2740719.34

89,334

< < 10-6 (35, 5)

  1. 1Relative to M0.
  2. 2Probability of the chi-square test with (DF1 - DF2) degrees of freedom.