Comment on "Phylogenetic MCMC Algorithms Are Misleading on Mixtures of Trees"

@article{ronquist06, abstract = {Mossel and Vigoda (Reports, 30 September 2005, p. 2207) show that nearest neighbor interchange transitions, commonly used in phylogenetic Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms, perform poorly on mixtures of dissimilar trees. However, the conditions leading to their results are artificial. Standard MCMC convergence diagnostics would detect the problem in real data, and correction of the model misspecification would solve it. 10.1126/science.1123622}, author = {Ronquist, Fredrik and Larget, Bret and Huelsenbeck, John P. and Kadane, Joseph B. and Simon, Donald and van der Mark, Paul }, citeulike-article-id = {1577752}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1123622}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {bayesian, methods, phylogenetics}, month = {April}, number = {5772}, pages = {367a+}, posted-at = {2008-01-16 20:33:03}, priority = {2}, title = {Comment on "Phylogenetic MCMC Algorithms Are Misleading on Mixtures of Trees"}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1123622}, volume = {312}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - ronquist06 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1577752 N2 - Mossel and Vigoda (Reports, 30 September 2005, p. 2207) show that nearest neighbor interchange transitions, commonly used in phylogenetic Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms, perform poorly on mixtures of dissimilar trees. However, the conditions leading to their results are artificial. Standard MCMC convergence diagnostics would detect the problem in real data, and correction of the model misspecification would solve it. 10.1126/science.1123622 IS - 5772 JF - Science TI - Comment on "Phylogenetic MCMC Algorithms Are Misleading on Mixtures of Trees" VL - 312 SP - 367a KW - bayesian KW - methods KW - phylogenetics AU - Ronquist, Fredrik AU - Larget, Bret AU - Huelsenbeck, John AU - Kadane, Joseph AU - Simon, Donald AU - van der Mark, Paul PY - 2006/April/21/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1123622 ER -