Maximum likelihood of evolutionary trees: hardness and approximation.
Benny ChorTamir TullerPublished in: ISMB (Supplement of Bioinformatics) (2005)
Keyphrases
- maximum likelihood
- maximum parsimony
- phylogenetic trees
- log likelihood function
- maximum likelihood estimator
- parameter estimation
- decision trees
- expectation maximization
- em algorithm
- learning theory
- closed form
- searching in metric spaces
- relative error
- tree structure
- genetic algorithm
- error bounds
- phase transition
- hyperparameters
- likelihood function
- approximation error
- computational complexity
- neural network
- tabu search
- gaussian distribution
- probability distribution
- special case
- search algorithm