The contest between parsimony and likelihood

Systematic Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 644-653

  Sober, Elliott ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 4644295677     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150490468657     Document Type: Review

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