Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Evidence of Absence Treated as Absence of Evidence: The Effects of Variation in the Number and Distribution of Gaps Treated as Missing Data on the Results of Standard Maximum Likelihood Analysis
D. Jacob Machado, S. Castroviejo-Fisher, T. Grant
The paper evaluates how variation in gap numbers and distributions affects maximum likelihood analysis results, finding negative correlations between ML scores and gap opening costs and missing data.
DOI 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106966