Appropriate likelihood ratio tests and marginal distributions for evolutionary tree models with constraints on parameters

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 798-803

  Ota, Rissa ^a   Waddell, Peter J ^b,c   Hasegawa, Masami ^b   Shimodaira, Hidetoshi ^b   Kishino, Hirohisa ^d  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gamma site substitution rate heterogeneity; Mixed chi square; Phylogenetic log likelihood ratio tests; Truncated or half normal distributions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034106726     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026358     Document Type: Article

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