Reliability of Bayesian Posterior Probabilities and Bootstrap Frequencies in Phylogenetics

• Abstract.—Many empirical studies have revealed considerable differences between nonparametric bootstrapping and Bayesian posterior probabilities in terms of the support values for branches, despite claimed predictions about their approximate equivalence

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Bayesian inference; bootstrap; model misspecification; phylogeny; posterior probability; simulations; support; true sampling

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