Dated ancestral trees from binary trait data and their application to the diversification of languages

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 545-566

  Nicholls, Geoff K ^a   Gray, Russell D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Binary trait; Dating methods; Glottochronology; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149083758     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2007.00648.x     Document Type: Article

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