On the variational distance of two trees
arXiv:math/0610323 · doi:10.1214/105051606000000196
Abstract
A widely studied model for generating sequences is to ``evolve'' them on a tree according to a symmetric Markov process. We prove that model trees tend to be maximally ``far apart'' in terms of variational distance.
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/105051606000000196 in the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)