Performance-Based Selection of Likelihood Models for Phylogeny Estimation

Systematic Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 674-683

  Minin, Vladimir ^a,b   Abdo, Zaid ^a   Joyce, Paul ^a   Sullivan, Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian model selection; Decision theory; Incorrect models; Likelihood ratio test; Maximum likelihood; Nucleotide substitution model; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0242487488     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150390235494     Document Type: Article

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