On the variational distance of two trees

DOI10.1214/105051606000000196zbMath1111.62111arXivmath/0610323OpenAlexW2038969923MaRDI QIDQ862218

László A. Székely, Mike A. Steel

Publication date: 5 February 2007

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610323

zbMATH Keywords

Cavender-Farris-Neyman modelJukes-Cantor modelphylogeny reconstruction\(q\)-state Potts modelsequence evolutionsymmetric binary channeltree-based Markov processYule-Harding distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Trees (05C05) Problems related to evolution (92D15) Applications of graph theory (05C90) Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C80)

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