Nature

Molecular phylogenetics: principles and practice

The rapid accumulation of genome sequence data has made phylogenetics an indispensable tool to various branches of biology. However, it has also posed considerable statistical and computational ...
JSTOR Daily

Robustness of Compound Dirichlet Priors for Bayesian Inference of Branch Lengths

We modified the phylogenetic program MrBayes 3.1.2 to incorporate the compound Dirichlet priors for branch lengths proposed recently by Rannala, Zhu, and Yang (2012. Tail paradox, partial ...
JSTOR Daily

Likelihood and Bayesian Inference from Selectively Reported Data

If the reported data of an experiment have been subject to selection, then inference from such data should be modified accordingly. We investigate the modification required to the face-value ...
Science Daily

Engine for Likelihood-Free Inference facilitates more effective simulation

The Engine for Likelihood-Free Inference is open to everyone, and it can help significantly reduce the number of simulator runs. The Engine for Likelihood-Free Inference is open to everyone, and it ...
BMJ

427 Applying bayesian networks to injury occurrence in professional football

Background Bayesian networks (BN) are directed acyclic graphs derived from empirical data that describe the dependency and probability structure. It may facilitate understanding of complex ...