2 papers
q-bio.PE2009
Analyzing the Accuracy of the Fitch Method for Reconstructing Ancestral States on Ultrametric Phylogenies
Louxin Zhang, Jian Shen, Jialiang Yang +1
Recurrence formulas are presented for studying the accuracy of the Fitch method for reconstructing the ancestral states in a given phylogenetic tree. As their applications, we anal…
q-bio.PE2008
More Taxa Are Not Necessarily Better for the Reconstruction of Ancestral Character States
G. L. Li, M. Steel, L. X. Zhang
We show that the accuracy of reconstrucing an ancestral state is not an increasing function of the size of taxon sampling.