Efficient estimation of the accuracy of the maximum likelihood method for ancestral state reconstruction

DOI10.1007/S10878-009-9261-6MaRDI QIDQ491208zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bin Ma, Louxin Zhang

Publication date 24 August 2015

Published in Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-009-9261-6

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihood methodancestral state reconstructionpolynomial time approximationreconstruction accuracy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Problems related to evolution (92D15)

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