Seriation in paleontological data using markov chain Monte Carlo methods.
Given a collection of fossil sites with data about the taxa that occur in each site, the task in biochronology is to find good estimates for the ages or ordering of sites. We describe a full probabilistic model for fossil data. The parameters of the model are natural: the ordering of the sites, the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2006-02-01
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| Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020006 |