A Mitchell wrote:
>> James,
>> Yes I understand your point about variance, but there is a paper in the
> literature (Bull et al.?) suggesting that 500 bootstrap replicates is
> sufficient for most purposes. One million just seems way out there...
>> Andrew
>
Andrew,
Oh, yeah, you are right, of course, but I'm just saying in this
four-taxon case you can perform the bootstrap enough times so that you
get the _real_ value. I'm really talking about doing it an infinite
number of times, so 500 should be fine. ;)
I have no special insight concerning how many replicates are enough and
I haven't read the paper, so I'm just happy to err on the side of caution.
I :) have ;( to 8-) stop 9( using those smiley faces.
regards,
James.
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