Links between maximum likelihood and maximum parsimony under a simple model of site substitution
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Links between maximum likelihood and maximum parsimony under a simple model of site substitution
zbMATH Open document ID: 0933.62118
DOI: 10.1007/BF02459467
author: Chris Tuffley
author: Mike Steel
published in: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
publication date: 2000-03-29T00:00:00Z
review text: This paper deals with the problem of inferring phylogenetic trees from genetic sequence data. Two standard methods of tree reconstruction are compared to each other: the maximum likelihood approach maximizing a certain likelihood function for the observed data set as well as the maximum parsimony method minimizing the total number of mutations required to explain the data from present day species. Under the assumptions of a simple nucleotide substitution process called fully symmetric model, it is shown that maximum likelihood and maximum parsimony are equivalent in the selection of phylogenetic trees and in the reconstruction of ancestral states on any given tree. Some of these results generalize earlier results from two to an arbitrary number of states.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62P10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92D15
zbMATH DE Number: 1045958
zbMATH Keywords: phylogenetic trees
zbMATH Keywords: maximum likelihood
zbMATH Keywords: maximum parsimony
Wikidata QID: Q29393239
reviewed by: G. Karigl
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02459467
OpenAlex ID: W4244797807
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