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abstract = {We review Bayesian approaches to model testing in general and to the assessment of topological hypotheses in particular. We show that standard Bayes factor tests of the monophyly of a group, or the placement of a sample sequence in a known reference tree, can be misleading. The reason for this is related to the well-known dependency of Bayes factors on model-specific priors. Specifically, when testing tree hypotheses it is important that each hypothesis is associated with an appropriate tree space in the prior. This can be achieved by using appropriately constrained searches or by filtering trees in the posterior sample, but in a more elaborate way than typically implemented. If it is difficult to find the appropriate tree sets to be contrasted, then the posterior model odds may be more informative than the Bayes factor. We illustrate the recommended techniques using an empirical test case addressing the issue of whether two genera of diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), Suphrodytes and Hydroporus, should be synonymized. Our refined Bayes factor tests, in contrast to standard analyses, show that there is strong support for Suphrodytes nesting inside Hydroporus, and the genera are therefore synonymized.}
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Citation for Study 13927
Citation title:
"Bayesian Tests of Topology Hypotheses with an example from Diving Beetles".
Study name:
"Bayesian Tests of Topology Hypotheses with an example from Diving Beetles".
This study is part of submission 13927
(Status: Published).
Citation
Bergsten J., Nilsson A.N., & Ronquist F. 2013. Bayesian Tests of Topology Hypotheses with an example from Diving Beetles. Systematic Biology, .
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Bergsten J.
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Nilsson A.N.
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Ronquist F.
Abstract
We review Bayesian approaches to model testing in general and to the assessment of topological hypotheses in particular. We show that standard Bayes factor tests of the monophyly of a group, or the placement of a sample sequence in a known reference tree, can be misleading. The reason for this is related to the well-known dependency of Bayes factors on model-specific priors. Specifically, when testing tree hypotheses it is important that each hypothesis is associated with an appropriate tree space in the prior. This can be achieved by using appropriately constrained searches or by filtering trees in the posterior sample, but in a more elaborate way than typically implemented. If it is difficult to find the appropriate tree sets to be contrasted, then the posterior model odds may be more informative than the Bayes factor. We illustrate the recommended techniques using an empirical test case addressing the issue of whether two genera of diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), Suphrodytes and Hydroporus, should be synonymized. Our refined Bayes factor tests, in contrast to standard analyses, show that there is strong support for Suphrodytes nesting inside Hydroporus, and the genera are therefore synonymized.
Keywords
Bayes factor, posterior odds, model testing, stepping-stone sampling, marginal likelihood, reversible-jump MCMC, Coleoptera, Dytiscidae
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@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref21765,
author = {Johannes Bergsten and Anders N Nilsson and Fredrik Ronquist},
title = {Bayesian Tests of Topology Hypotheses with an example from Diving Beetles},
year = {2013},
keywords = {Bayes factor, posterior odds, model testing, stepping-stone sampling, marginal likelihood, reversible-jump MCMC, Coleoptera, Dytiscidae},
doi = {},
url = {http://},
pmid = {},
journal = {Systematic Biology},
volume = {},
number = {},
pages = {},
abstract = {We review Bayesian approaches to model testing in general and to the assessment of topological hypotheses in particular. We show that standard Bayes factor tests of the monophyly of a group, or the placement of a sample sequence in a known reference tree, can be misleading. The reason for this is related to the well-known dependency of Bayes factors on model-specific priors. Specifically, when testing tree hypotheses it is important that each hypothesis is associated with an appropriate tree space in the prior. This can be achieved by using appropriately constrained searches or by filtering trees in the posterior sample, but in a more elaborate way than typically implemented. If it is difficult to find the appropriate tree sets to be contrasted, then the posterior model odds may be more informative than the Bayes factor. We illustrate the recommended techniques using an empirical test case addressing the issue of whether two genera of diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), Suphrodytes and Hydroporus, should be synonymized. Our refined Bayes factor tests, in contrast to standard analyses, show that there is strong support for Suphrodytes nesting inside Hydroporus, and the genera are therefore synonymized.}
}
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TY - JOUR
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AU - Bergsten,Johannes
AU - Nilsson,Anders N
AU - Ronquist,Fredrik
T1 - Bayesian Tests of Topology Hypotheses with an example from Diving Beetles
PY - 2013
KW - Bayes factor
KW - posterior odds
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KW - stepping-stone sampling
KW - marginal likelihood
KW - reversible-jump MCMC
KW - Coleoptera
KW - Dytiscidae
UR - http://dx.doi.org/
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