Why non-uniform priors on clades are both unavoidable and unobjectionable

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 748-749

  Velasco, Joel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 34948836189     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Pickett K.M., and Randle C.P. Strange bayes indeed: uniform topological priors imply non-uniform clade priors. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 34 (2005) 203-211
2. Steel M., and Pickett K.M. On the impossibility of uniform priors on clades. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 39 (2006) 585-586