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From: Vincent Vizachero <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] 2 routes for P312 and U106 ?
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 11:22:35 -0400
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I read SE to be the standard error of the Td estimates, though I
haven't researched the method they used for calculating it.

VV


On Sep 9, 2010, at 11:12 AM, Ken Nordtvedt wrote:

> Having gone back to the supplementary table, something strikes me as
> very
> odd --- the SE column.
>
> Standard error of what? Look at the very tiny SE values for Poland
> and
> France, two countries with much smaller N than Germany, Netherlands,
> Denmark, etc. What could be causing that?
>
> The SE values track fairly well with the variance numbers other than
> bizarre
> exceptions, so I suspect SE was calculated from something which
> behaves much
> like variance, itself. In any case, the SE numbers don't look like
> anything
> I know about and which can nevertheless be calculated from a set of
> haplotypes.
>
>
>
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