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Maximum Likelihood Inference

Maximum Likelihood Inference is a statistical estimation method that, within the context of lineage reconstruction, identifies the evolutionary tree and associated parameters that maximize the probability of observing the given molecular sequence data under a specified model of evolution.

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MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

Koichiro Tamura, Daniel G. Peterson, Nora Peterson et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2011 · 40.3K citations · Full text

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RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

Alexandros Stamatakis · Bioinformatics · 2014 · 34.3K citations · Full text

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IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era

Bùi Quang Minh, Heiko A. Schmidt, Olga Chernomor et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2020 · 16.8K citations · Full text

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RAxML-VI-HPC: maximum likelihood-based phylogenetic analyses with thousands of taxa and mixed models

Alexandros Stamatakis · Bioinformatics · 2006 · 15.9K citations · Full text

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Evolutionary trees from DNA sequences: A maximum likelihood approach

Joseph Felsenstein · Journal of Molecular Evolution · 1981 · 14.9K citations

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    Gauss M. Cordeiro

    Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

    78 publications · 4.4K citations

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  2. AS
    Alexandros Stamatakis

    Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany

    41 publications · 55.6K citations

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  3. HM
    Haitham M. Yousof

    Benha University, Egypt

    35 publications · 1.9K citations

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    N. Balakrishnan

    McMaster University, Canada

    31 publications · 1.7K citations

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    Morad Alizadeh

    Persian Gulf University, Iran

    31 publications · 1.3K citations

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  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    50 h-index

    200 publications

    45.7K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    46 h-index

    244 publications

    29.8K citations

  3. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    45 h-index

    147 publications

    40.5K citations

  4. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    41 h-index

    163 publications

    14.5K citations

  5. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    40 h-index

    115 publications

    14.7K citations

  6. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    39 h-index

    335 publications

    16K citations

  7. Universidade de São Paulo

    São Paulo, Brazil

    38 h-index

    164 publications

    7.9K citations

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    Stanford, United States

    36 h-index

    100 publications

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  1. Journal of the American Statistical Association

    182 publications · 29.9K citations

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  2. Molecular Biology and Evolution

    MBE · 92 publications · 87.2K citations

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  3. Systematic Biology

    89 publications · 17.4K citations

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  4. Biometrika

    110 publications · 14.8K citations

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  5. Biometrics

    144 publications · 10.3K citations

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