Significance of the length of the shortest tree

DOI10.1007/BF02618469zbMath0756.92019MaRDI QIDQ1203102

David Penny, Michael D. Hendy, Mike A. Steel

Publication date: 4 February 1993

Published in: Journal of Classification (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

parsimonybinary treestaxonomyFitch's algorithmdistribution of lengths of phylogenetic treesminimum-length tree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Taxonomy, cladistics, statistics in mathematical biology (92B10) Protein sequences, DNA sequences (92D20) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10)

Related Items (3)

Probabilistic models in cluster analysis ⋮ Distributions on bicoloured binary trees arising from the principle of parsimony ⋮ A limiting theorem for parsimoniously bicoloured trees

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