User:R. Eric Collins/MBL/Support
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Branch Support and Tests
- Bootstrap
- hat ^ signifies observed
- not required to use majority-rule, sometimes 'rogue' taxa jump around and ruin support
- tree/bootstrap as 'summary' of results (i.e. not the end all and be all)
- asterisk * refers to boostrapped value
- CAN'T USE KH TEST TO COMPARE AN A PRIORI TREE TO YOUR BEST ML TREE
- SH test
- if your model is too simple, you can overestimate branch support
- in PAUP, include *all* trees for SHtest, not just 2 you're interested in because it takes all of them into account
p-value== how often do you get support for the alternate when the null hypothesis is true?
- bootstrap proportion > 0.95 can sometimes be used as equivalence to 0.05 p-value
- but... curved boundaries in treespace invalidate D ~ 1 - BP relationship
- triple-point (star tree) corrected by Susko 2010
- un-adjusted (Felsenstein) bootstraps tend to UNDERESTIMATE on a priori tree
- for highly-supported branches (~ >70%), bootstrap proportions actually work quite well as estimates for p-values
- things based on bootstraps are more robust to changes in model