An Empirical Test of Bootstrapping as a Method for Assessing Confidence in Phylogenetic Analysis

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Summary

This work uses computer simulations and a laboratory-generated phylogeny to test bootstrapping results of parsimony analyses, and indicates that any given bootstrap proportion provides an unbiased but highly imprecise measure of repeatability, unless the actual probability of replicating the relevant result is nearly one.

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Published
1993-06-01
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Bootstrapping (finance), Biology, Phylogenetic tree, Test (biology), Statistics

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