Bayesian hypothesis testing of four-taxon topologies using molecular sequence data

Biometrics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 193-210

  Sinsheimer, Janet S ^a   Lake, James A ^b   Little, Roderick J A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Hypothesis Testing; Molecular evolution

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INFERENCE ENGINES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; STATISTICAL TESTS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS; BAYESIAN HYPOTHESIS; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE DATA; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; TRIANGULAR SETS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0029883521     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533156     Document Type: Article

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