Improving the accuracy of demographic and molecular clock model comparison while accommodating phylogenetic uncertainty

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2157-2167

  Baele, Guy ^a   Lemey, Philippe ^a   Bedford, Trevor ^b   Rambaut, Andrew ^b   Suchard, Marc A ^c,d   Alekseyenko, Alexander V ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes factors; Bayesian inference; BEAST; demographic models; marginal likelihood; model comparison; molecular clock; path sampling; phylogeny; stepping stone sampling

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA VIRUSES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84865475040     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss084     Document Type: Article

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