A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for Calibrating Estimates of Species Divergence Times
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A hierarchical Bayesian model for calibrating estimates of species divergence times.
In Bayesian divergence time estimation methods, incorporating calibrating information from the fossil record is commonly done by assigning prior densities to ancestral nodes in the tree. Calibration prior densities are typically parametric distributions offset by minimum age estimates provided by the fossil record. Specification of the parameters of calibration densities requires the user to qu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Systematic Biology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1076-836X,1063-5157
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys032