A central limit theorem for the parsimony length of trees

DOI10.2307/1428164zbMath0872.60016OpenAlexW2335278893MaRDI QIDQ4332209

Larry Goldstein, Michael S. Waterman, Mike A. Steel

Publication date: 1 October 1997

Published in: Advances in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10092/11406

zbMATH Keywords

treesphylogenetic analysislarge deviation boundsparsimony scoredependent central limit theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Taxonomy, cladistics, statistics in mathematical biology (92B10) Combinatorial probability (60C05)

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