Branch-length prior influences Bayesian posterior probability of phylogeny

Systematic Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 455-470

  Yang, Ziheng ^a   Rannala, Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fair balance paradox; Lindley's paradox; Model selection; Molecular phylogenetics; Posterior probabilities; Prior; Star tree paradox

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; PROBABILITY;

EID: 22844452772     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150590945313     Document Type: Article

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