Improving marginal likelihood estimation for bayesian phylogenetic model selection

Systematic Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 150-160

  Xie, Wangang ^a   Lewis, Paul O ^b   Fan, Yu ^b   Kuo, Lynn ^b   Chen, Ming Hui ^b  

^a ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; harmonic mean; model selection; path sampling; phylogenetics marginal likelihood; steppingstone sampling; thermodynamic integration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 79951566251     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syq085     Document Type: Article

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