Does imbalance in phylogenies reflect only bias?

Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1292-1295

  Stam, Ed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Colless's index; Consistency index; Misinformative characters; Phylogenetic tree balance; Retention index; Tree estimation bias

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0035989047     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2002.tb01440.x     Document Type: Article

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