When being "most likely" is not enough: Examining the performance of three uses of the parametric bootstrap in phylogenetics

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 198-222

  Antezana, Marcos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Conservativeness; Critical length; Dichotomous tree; Discreteness; Four taxon case; Homoplasy; Hypothesis testing; Null hypothesis; Parametric bootstrap; Phylogenetics; Resampling bootstrap; Site pattern; Sparseness; Star tree; Topology test

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GENE SEQUENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARAMETRIC TEST; PERFORMANCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0037308498     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-002-2394-1     Document Type: Article

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