Support versus corroboration

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 39, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 72-85

  Egan, Mary G ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Branch support; Bremer support; Corroboration; Jackknife; Parsimony; Permutation; Phylogeny; Robustness; Support

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RANDOM PROCESSES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

BOOTSTRAP; BRANCH SUPPORT; BREMER SUPPORT; CORROBORATION; JACKKNIFE; PARSIMONY; PERMUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SUPPORT;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BIOINFORMATICS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; SYNAPOMORPHY;

EID: 31344440363     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2005.11.007     Document Type: Review

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