Finite mixture coding: A new approach to coding continuous characters

Systematic Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 67-78

  Strait, David S ^a   Moniz, Marc A ^a   Strait, Peggy T ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Cladistics; Code; Continuous character; Finite mixture analysis; Likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030335884     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/45.1.67     Document Type: Article

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