Quantifying and Mitigating the Effect of Preferential Sampling on Phylodynamic Inference

Phylodynamics seeks to estimate effective population size fluctuations from molecular sequences of individuals sampled from a population of interest. One way to accomplish this task formulates an observed sequence data likelihood exploiting a coalescent model for the sampled individuals’ genealogy a...

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Main Authors: Karcher, Michael D., Palacios, Julia A., Bedford, Trevor, Suchard, Marc A., Minin, Vladimir N.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4777449/