maximum likelihood
Britishnoun
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the probability of randomly drawing a given sample from a population maximized over the possible values of the population parameters
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the non-Bayesian rule that, given an experimental observation, one should utilize as point estimates of parameters of a distribution those values which give the highest conditional probability to that observation, irrespective of the prior probability assigned to the parameters
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MEGA5: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis using maximum likelihood, evolutionary distance, and maximum parsimony methods.
From Nature ● May 8, 2018
Phylogenetic analysis of each data set was conducted using Bayesian inference in MrBayes and maximum likelihood in RAxML; input alignments are provided in Supplementary Data 8.
From Nature ● Dec. 25, 2016
Unrooted maximum likelihood trees from the RAxML analyses. a, Best scoring maximum likelihood tree from the phylogenetic analysis of SVP/AGL22 and StMADS11-like sequences. b, Best scoring maximum likelihood tree for the SOC1-like sequences.
From Nature ● Dec. 25, 2016
A maximum likelihood tree was created, rooted by the split between two major types of terpene synthase genes, and nodes were coloured by species.
From Nature ● Jun. 10, 2014
Topology inferred using RAxML 7.2.7 using maximum likelihood with the CAT +WAG + F model with all taxa from Supplementary Table 12 except Trichoplax, Caenorhabditis and non-choanoflagellate out-groups.
From Nature ● May 20, 2014
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