A confounding effect of missing data on character conflict in maximum likelihood and Bayesian MCMC phylogenetic analyses

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 267-280

  Simmons, Mark P ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Parsimony; Phylogenetic bias; SH like aLRT; Supermatrix; Unlinked branch lengths

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84908164854     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.08.021     Document Type: Article

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