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SUBMITTER: Bergsten J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3739882 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bergsten Johannes J Nilsson Anders N AN Ronquist Fredrik F
Systematic biology 20130428 5
We review Bayesian approaches to model testing in general and to the assessment of topological hypotheses in particular. We show that the standard way of setting up Bayes factor tests of the monophyly of a group, or the placement of a sample sequence in a known reference tree, can be misleading. The reason for this is related to the well-known dependency of Bayes factors on model-specific priors. Specifically, when testing tree hypotheses it is important that each hypothesis is associated with a ...[more]