Maximum Likelihood and Minimum-Steps Methods for Estimating Evolutionary Trees from Data on Discrete Characters

1 September 1973

journal article
Published by JSTOR in Systematic Zoology

Vol. 22 (3) , 240
https://doi.org/10.2307/2412304

Abstract

The general maximum likelihood approach to the statistical estimation of phylogenies is outlined, for data in which there are a number of discrete states for ea...

Keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD
MINIMUM STEPS
DISCRETE CHARACTERS
EVOLUTIONARY TREES
ESTIMATING EVOLUTIONARY
STEPS METHODS
LIKELIHOOD AND MINIMUM

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