Category Archives: Likelihood

Falsification, Likelihood, and Intelligent Design Creationism

Posted on April 12, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

How did intelligent design creationism become the null hypothesis?
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Sometimes, Phylogenetic Analysis Takes a Really Long Time

Posted on September 5, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

This analysis is never going to end (stupid GTR models).
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Posted in Bioinformatics, Evolution, Likelihood, Statistics | 4 Comments

A Question About Genetically Tracing One’s Ancestry

Posted on September 3, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Over at Pandagon, Pam’s aunt had her ancestry traced using mitochondrial DNA (‘mtDNA’). How is it even possible to conclude that one is ‘percent-anything’ based on a mtDNA haplotype?
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Posted in Evolution, Human Genetics, Likelihood | 3 Comments

Krauthammer: We Are All Popperians Now?

Posted on June 26, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

While I’m away, I’ll leave you with this introduction to likelihood theory (originally published Nov. 22, 2005).
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Posted in Evolution, Likelihood | 7 Comments