Bayesian analysis of elapsed times in continuous-time Markov chains

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 355-368

  Ferreira, Marco A R ^a   Suchard, Marc A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Conditional reference prior; Frequentist coverage; Markov process; Mean squared error; Phylogenetic reconstruction; Prior for branch length

Indexed keywords

EID: 53849090594     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.5550360302     Document Type: Article

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