The importance of proper model assumption in bayesian phylogenetics

Systematic Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 265-277

  Lemmon, Alan R ^a   Moriarty, Emily C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian phylogenetic inference; Convergence; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Maximum likelihood; Model choice; Posterior probability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 2442581218     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150490423520     Document Type: Article

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