An investigation of error sources and their impact in estimating the time to the most recent ancestor of spatially and temporally distributed HIV sequences

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1495-1516

  Burr, Tom L ^a   Gattiker, James R ^a   Gerrish, Philip J ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Error sources; Evolutionary models; Time to ancestor

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HOST; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; PROGENOTE; RANDOMIZATION; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DNA, VIRAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, ENV; GENES, GAG; GENETICS, POPULATION; HIV; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0037687794     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1508     Document Type: Article

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