Random tree-puzzle leads to the yule-harding distribution

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 873-877

  Vinh, Le Sy ^a   Fuehrer, Andrea ^b   Von Haeseler, Arndt ^b  

^a VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

maximumlikelihood; phylogenetic reconstruction; tree distribution; Tree Puzzle; Yule Harding distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 78751551151     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq212     Document Type: Article

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