In Bayesian data analysis, it is often important to evaluate quantiles of the posterior distribution of a parameter of interest (e.g., to form posterior intervals).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo explores tree space slowly, in part because it frequently returns to the same tree topology. An alternative strategy would be to explore tree space systematically, and never return to the same topology. In this article, we present an efficient parallelized method to map out the high likelihood set of phylogenetic tree topologies via systematic search, which we show to be a good approximation of the high posterior set of tree topologies on the data sets analyzed.
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