On the impossibility of uniform priors on clades

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 585-586

  Steel, Mike ^a   Pickett, Kurt M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; LETTER; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 33646018298     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.10.005     Document Type: Letter

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