The Taming of the Skew: Estimating Proper Confidence Intervals for Divergence Dates
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- 1 April 2008
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Systematic Biology
- Vol. 57 (2), 317-328
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10635150802040605
Abstract
For any method of statistical inference, it is necessary to have some measure of error in order to assess confidence. This is particularly important for divergeKeywords
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