Given overlapping subsets of a set of taxa (e.g. species), and posterior distributions on phylogenetic tree topologies for each of these taxon sets, how can we infer a posterior distribution on phylogenetic tree topologies for the entire taxon set? Although the equivalent problem for in the non-Bayesian case has attracted substantial research, the Bayesian case has not attracted the attention it deserves. In this paper we develop a variational Bayes approach to this problem and demonstrate its effectiveness.
翻译:鉴于一组分类群(例如物种)重叠的子集,以及每种分类群的植物遗传树本位的后部分布,我们如何推论出整个分类群的植物遗传树本位的后部分布?虽然非巴耶斯案例的同等问题引起了大量研究,但巴耶斯案例并没有引起应有的注意。在本文件中,我们制定了一种不同的贝耶斯方法来解决这一问题并展示其有效性。