Monte Carlo strategies for selecting parameter values in simulation experiments

Systematic Biology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 741-751

  Leigh, Jessica W ^a   Bryant, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Importance sampling; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Phylogenetic analysis; Plant domestication; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84946916167     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syv030     Document Type: Article

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