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

DOI10.1007/S10878-009-9261-6zbMATH Open1319.92036OpenAlexW2156708127MaRDI QIDQ491208FDOQ491208

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

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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)

Cites Work

• Statistical decision theory and Bayesian analysis. 2nd ed
• Finding a maximum likelihood tree is hard
• Broadcasting on trees and the Ising model.
• Inverting random functions

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