Maximum-likelihood estimation of coalescence times in genealogical trees

Genetics

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2073-2084

  Meligkotsidou, Loukia ^a   Fearnhead, Paul ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENEALOGY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL GENETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE CONSTRUCTION METHOD; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALGORITHMS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS;

FUNGI;

EID: 33645121776     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.043067     Document Type: Article

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