Seriation in Paleontological Data Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Computational Biology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1553-734X,1553-7358
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020006