Does adding characters with missing data increase or decrease phylogenetic accuracy?

Systematic Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 625-640

  Wiens, John J ^a  

^a SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Missing data; Parsimony; Simulations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0032225748     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351598260635     Document Type: Article

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