Effects of tree shape on the accuracy of maximum likelihood-based ancestor reconstructions

Systematic Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 809-814

  Mooers, Arne Ø ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 9744219822     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150490502595     Document Type: Review

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