Estimating absolute rates of molecular evolution and divergence times: a penalized likelihood approach.

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Summary

A semiparametric smoothing method is developed using penalized likelihood, a saturated model in which every lineage has a separate rate combined with a roughness penalty that discourages rates from varying too much across a phylogeny.

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2002-01-01
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Smoothing, Biology, Divergence (linguistics), Statistics, Evolutionary biology

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