Assessing the effect of model specification and prior sensitivity on Bayesian tests of temporal signal.

Our understanding of the evolution of many microbes has been revolutionised by the molecular clock, a statistical tool to infer evolutionary rates and timescales from analyses of biomolecular sequences. In all molecular clock models, evolutionary rates and times are jointly unidentifiable and '...

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Main Authors: John H Tay, Arthur Kocher, Sebastian Duchene
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-11-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012371