Robust regression and posterior predictive simulation increase power to detect early bursts of trait evolution

Systematic Biology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 293-308

  Slater, Graham J ^a,b   Pennell, Matthew W ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84899026322     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syt066     Document Type: Article

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