Computing Bayes factors using thermodynamic integration

Systematic Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 195-207

  Lartillot, Nicolas ^a   Philippe, Hervé ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; Harmonic mean; Mixture model; Path sampling; Phylogeny; Thermodynamic integration

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33644826560     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150500433722     Document Type: Article

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