Analytic solutions for Three-Taxon MLMC trees with variable rates across sites

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2149, Issue , 2001, Pages 204-213

  Chor, Benny ^a   Hendy, Michael ^b   Penny, David ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; FORESTRY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ANALYTIC SOLUTION; CLASS OF DISTRIBUTIONS; ESTIMATION PROBLEM; HADAMARD CONJUGATION; INVERSE GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION; NEGATIVE REAL NUMBERS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 84959050942     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44696-6_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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