A Nonparametric Approach to Estimating Divergence Times in the Absence of Rate Constancy

1997/12/01 by Michael J. Sanderson · 22 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Mathematics · #Genetic diversity and population structure #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Plant and animal studies #Divergence (linguistics) #Biology #Autocorrelation #Nonparametric statistics #Molecular clock #Smoothing #Maximum likelihood #Evolutionary biology #Algorithm #Sequence (biology) #Phylogenetics #Statistics #Mathematics #Gene #Genetics

paper · doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025731

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Abstract

MJ Sanderson; A Nonparametric Approach to Estimating Divergence Times in the Absence of Rate Constancy, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 12, 1

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