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Comparison of mode estimation methods and application in molecular clock analysis

BACKGROUND: Distributions of time estimates in molecular clock studies are sometimes skewed or contain outliers. In those cases, the mode is a better estimator of the overall time of divergence than the mean or median. However, different methods are available for estimating the mode. We compared the...

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Autores principales: Hedges, S Blair, Shah, Prachi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC183840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12892571
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-4-31