Table 4  Mean true positive rate and rank accordance rate in Escherichia coli K12.
Markov order  1  2  3  4  5  6
TP rate  99.0%  98.0%  97.9%  94.4%  82.1%  47.6%
RA rate  99.0%  95.5%  91.5%  83.9%  68.0%  36.5%
× 103  383.33  95.83  23.96  5.99  1.50  0.37
Both quantities are estimated with 1 000 simulations. We consider the 1 00 most over-represented octamers, the sequence length is ℓ = 4639675. The last row gives the sample size per free parameter (length n of the sequence divided by the number km(k - 1) of parameters).