Response to Comment on "Statistical binning enables an accurate coalescent-based estimation of the avian tree".
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Liu and Edwards argue against the use of weighted statistical binning within a species tree estimation pipeline. However, we show that their mathematical argument does not apply to weighted statistical binning. Furthermore, their simulation study does not follow the recommended statistical binning protocol and has data of unknown origin that bias the results against weighted statistical binning.
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Comment on "Statistical binning enables an accurate coalescent-based estimation of the avian tree".
Mirarab et al. (Research Article, 12 December 2014, p. 1250463) introduced statistical binning to improve the signal in phylogenetic methods using the multispecies coalescent model. We show that all forms of binning-naïve, statistical, and weighted statistical-display poor performance and are statistically inconsistent in large regions of parameter space, unlike unbinned sequence data used with...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Science
دوره 350 6257 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015