Estimating the Ancestral States of a Continuous-Valued Character Using Squared-Change Parsimony: An Analytical Solution
Systematic BiologyPublished 1 December 1994
Brian H. McArdle, Allen G. Rodrigo
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This paper presents a direct matrix solution to the estimation of the ancestral states of a quantitative variable with single val?
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Brian McArdle, Allen G. Rodrigo; Estimating the Ancestral States of a Continuous-Valued Character Using Squared-Change Parsimony: An Analytical Solution, S
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Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
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394 Citations1991Wayne P. Maddison
It is shown that when the squared changes are inversely weighted by the lengths of the branches, the squared-change parsimony reconstruction is that which has maximum posterior probability under a Brownian motion model of evolution.