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Efficient estimation of the accuracy of the maximum likelihood method for ancestral state reconstruction

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  • Bin Ma

    (University of Waterloo)

  • Louxin Zhang

    (National University of Singapore)

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The marginal maximum likelihood method is a widely-used method for ancestral state reconstruction. Given an evolution model (a phylogeny tree and the edge mutation rates) and the extant states (states on leaves), the method computes efficiently the most likely ancestral state on the root. However, when the extant states are randomly generated by using the evolutionary model, it is unknown how to efficiently calculate the expected reconstruction accuracy of the marginal maximum likelihood method. In this paper, a fully polynomial time approximation scheme (FPTAS) is presented for the calculation.

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  • Bin Ma & Louxin Zhang, 2011. "Efficient estimation of the accuracy of the maximum likelihood method for ancestral state reconstruction," Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Springer, vol. 21(4), pages 409-422, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jcomop:v:21:y:2011:i:4:d:10.1007_s10878-009-9261-6
    DOI: 10.1007/s10878-009-9261-6
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