Unidentifiable divergence times in rates-across-sites models

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 130-134

  Evans, Steven N ^a   Warnow, Tandy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma distribution; Identifiability; Phylogenetic inference; Random effects

Indexed keywords

GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; IDENTIFIABILITY; JACOBIAN MATRIX; PHYLOGENETIC INFERENCE; RANDOM EFFECTS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 14744278584     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2004.34     Document Type: Article

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