Correcting the Bias of Empirical Frequency Parameter Estimators in Codon Models

Sergei Kosakovsky Pond; Wayne Delport; Spencer V. Muse; Konrad Scheffler

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011230

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Correcting the Bias of Empirical Frequency Parameter Estimators in Codon Models

Sergei Kosakovsky Pond ,

* E-mail: spond@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America
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Wayne Delport,

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America
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Spencer V. Muse,

Affiliation Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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Konrad Scheffler

Affiliation Computer Science Division, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Correcting the Bias of Empirical Frequency Parameter Estimators in Codon Models

Sergei Kosakovsky Pond,
Wayne Delport,
Spencer V. Muse,
Konrad Scheffler

Published: July 30, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011230

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Correcting a typographical error

Posted by sergeilkp on 27 May 2014 at 03:49 GMT

David Swofford brought it to my attention that in the description of Equation (3), the equilibrium frequencies PI_X are incorrectly defined in terms of pi, where in fact they should be defined in terms of phi (as in Equation 1).

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