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Maximum Parsimony and the Skewness Test: A Simulation Study of the Limits of Applicability

The maximum parsimony (MP) method for inferring phylogenies is widely used, but little is known about its limitations in non-asymptotic situations. This study employs large-scale computations with simulated phylogenetic data to estimate the probability that MP succeeds in finding the true phylogeny...

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Autores principales: Määttä, Jussi, Roos, Teemu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4818079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27035667
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152656