The impact of missing data on real morphological phylogenies: Influence of the number and distribution of missing entries

Cladistics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 326-339

  Prevosti, Francisco J ^a   Chemisquy, María A ^b  

^a MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO DE BOTÁNICA DARWINION   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 77953656661     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: 10960031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00289.x     Document Type: Article

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