Correcting the bias of empirical frequency parameter estimators in codon models

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Kosakovsky Pond, Sergei ^a   Delport, Wayne ^b   Muse, Spencer V ^c   Scheffler, Konrad ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURVE FITTING; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MODEL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOP CODON; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CODON; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 78049359630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011230     Document Type: Article

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