Increasing the efficiency of MCMC for hierarchical phylogenetic models of categorical traits using reduced mixed models

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 706-714

  Hadfield, Jarrod D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Comparative analysis; Evolutionary biology; Population genetics; Quantitative genetics; Software

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84931315400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12354     Document Type: Article

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