Comparison of the birth-death model and the coalescent model in estimating epidemic growth rate from trees with tips sampled at one point in time.

<p>For simulated trees where all 100 tips are sampled at one point in time, we estimated the growth rate parameter assuming a birth-death model with fixed sampling probability (blue bars) and the coalescent model with a deterministic exponentially growing population (red bars). Here we used and sampling probability (). See <a href="http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003913#pcbi.1003913.s015" target="_blank">Figure S15</a> for the plots of other parameter settings.