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When Trees Grow Too Long: Investigating the Causes of Highly Inaccurate Bayesian Branch-Length Estim...

When Trees Grow Too Long: Investigating the Causes of Highly Inaccurate Bayesian Branch-Length Estim...

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When Trees Grow Too Long: Investigating the Causes of Highly Inaccurate Bayesian Branch-Length Estimates

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When Trees Grow Too Long: Investigating the Causes of Highly Inaccurate Bayesian Branch-Length Estimates

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England: Oxford University Press

Journal title

Systematic biology, 2010-03, Vol.59 (2), p.145-161

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English

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England: Oxford University Press

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Contents

A surprising number of recent Bayesian phylogenetic analyses contain branch-length estimates that are several orders of magnitude longer than corresponding maximum-likelihood estimates. The levels of divergence implied by such branch lengths are unreasonable for studies using biological data and are known to be false for studies using simulated dat...

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When Trees Grow Too Long: Investigating the Causes of Highly Inaccurate Bayesian Branch-Length Estimates

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_733162781

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_733162781

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ISSN

1063-5157

E-ISSN

1076-836X

DOI

10.1093/sysbio/syp081

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