Confidence regions and hypothesis tests for topologies using generalized least squares

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 862-868

  Susko, Edward ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Generalized least squares; Phylogeny; Statistical tests

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HYPOTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HIV; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 0038586502     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg093     Document Type: Article

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