Exact and approximate limit behaviour of the Yule tree's cophenetic index

DOI10.1016/j.mbs.2018.05.005zbMath1405.92190arXiv1703.08954OpenAlexW2951758824WikidataQ88628381 ScholiaQ88628381MaRDI QIDQ1711952

Krzysztof Bartoszek

Publication date: 18 January 2019

Published in: Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08954

zbMATH Keywords

martingalesphylogeneticssignificance testingcontraction-type distributioncophenetic index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Problems related to evolution (92D15) Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C80) Taxonomy, cladistics, statistics in mathematical biology (92B10) Strong limit theorems (60F15) Applications of branching processes (60J85) Markov processes: hypothesis testing (62M02) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08)

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Uses Software

• Mathematica
• R
• ape
• BEAST
• phyloTop

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