Failed refutations: Further comments on parsimony and likelihood methods and their relationship to Popper's degree of corroboration

Systematic Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 352-367

  De Queiroz, Kevin ^a   Poe, Steven ^b,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Assumptions; Corroboration; Karl Popper; Likelihood; Parsimony; Philosophy; Phylogenetics; Probability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; KNOWLEDGE; PHILOSOPHY; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

KNOWLEDGE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHILOSOPHY; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0038487291     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150309324     Document Type: Article

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