Assessing Parameter Identifiability in Phylogenetic Models Using Data Cloning

Systematic Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 955-972

  Ponciano, José Miguel ^a   Burleigh, J Gordon ^a   Braun, Edward L ^a   Taper, Mark L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation in Phylogenetics; Data Cloning; diagnostics; Maximum Likelihood; parameter estimability; Parameter Identifiability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHLOROPLASTS; CLASSIFICATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS;

EID: 84868007725     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys055     Document Type: Article

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