Strange bayes indeed: Uniform topological priors imply non-uniform clade priors

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 203-211

  Pickett, Kurt M ^a   Randle, Christopher P ^b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian phylogenetics; Bootstrap; Clade support; Jackknife; Prior probability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICS;

BAYES THEOREM; GENETICS, POPULATION; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 9744250258     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.09.001     Document Type: Article

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