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q-bio.PE2006
The Bayesian `star paradox' persists for long finite sequences
Mike Steel, Frederick A. Matsen
The `star paradox' in phylogenetics is the tendency for a particular resolved tree to be sometimes strongly supported even when the data is generated by an unresolved (`star') tree…
q-bio.PE2006
Optimization over a class of tree shape statistics
Frederick A. Matsen
Tree shape statistics quantify some aspect of the shape of a phylogenetic tree. They are commonly used to compare reconstructed trees to evolutionary models and to find evidence of…