ABSTRACT
A “trial” is defi ned as the generation of one complete set of results based on the information entered by the user in a NEWGARDEN input fi le. For each trial, NEWGARDEN produces a table of summary statistics for analyses of that trial in the form of an output fi le. The user can specify the number of “runs” for a trial, each run being an independent replicate of population development starting from a newly generated set of founders and growing under the user-specifi ed conditions for the trial. For example, the user may specify 25 replicate runs for a given set of trial conditions. After completing this trial and collecting the output summary statistics based on those 25 replicate runs, the user can then change one of the initial trial conditions, say, changing selfi ng rate from 0 to 25%, again specifying 25 replicate runs of the new trial conditions. The output fi les for these two trials can then be compared to examine the effects of this change in selfi ng rate since a mean and standard deviation (s.d.) for output statistics are calculated separately for each trial based on the results generated across the 25 replicate runs for a given trial.
