Relaxed molecular clocks, the bias-variance trade-off, and the quality of phylogenetic inference

Systematic Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Wertheim, Joel O ^a   Sanderson, Michael J ^a   Worobey, Michael ^a   Bjork, Adam ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Bias variance trade off; Maximum likelihood; Relaxed molecular clock; Robinson Foulds tree to tree distance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL; PROCEDURES;

BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 72049088557     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syp072     Document Type: Article

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