Probabilities on phylogenetic trees

[James Francis Lyons-Weiler]

In case anyone following this thread does not but wants to understand
likelihood theory, for more information on how likelihood is supposed to
work (i.e., the basics), see

http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/phylo/coin/coin.html

My reference to this information should not be conflated with support of
likelihood ratio tests (LRTs) or the use of likelihood to simultaneously
estimate more than one parameter unless Bayesian priors are rock-solid
(i.e., perfectly known) :) .

James


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