Clade support measures and their adequacy

Cladistics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1051-1064

  Grant, Taran ^a   Kluge, Arnold G ^b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLADISTICS; MARKOV CHAIN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS;

EID: 56649106574     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: 10960031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00231.x     Document Type: Article

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