title: Priors for the Bayesian star paradox.
abstract: We show that the Bayesian star paradox, first proved mathematically by Steel and Matsen for a specific class of prior distributions, occurs in a wider context including less regular, possibly discontinuous, prior distributions.
authors.affiliation: Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, Institut Fourier UMR 5582 UJF-CNRS, 100 rue des Maths, BP 74, 38402 Saint Martin d'Hères, France. mikael.falconnet@ujf-grenoble.fr
authors.forename: Mikael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Falconnet
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010802:Phylogeny; D011336:Probability