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Maximum Parsimony on Subsets of Taxa
Mareike Fischer, Bhalchandra D. Thatte
In this paper we investigate mathematical questions concerning the reliability (reconstruction accuracy) of Fitch's maximum parsimony algorithm for reconstructing the ancestral sta…
q-bio.PE2008
Revisiting an equivalence between maximum parsimony and maximum likelihood methods in phylogenetics
Mareike Fischer, Bhalchandra D. Thatte
Tuffley and Steel (1997) proved that Maximum Likelihood and Maximum Parsimony methods in phylogenetics are equivalent for sequences of characters under a simple symmetric model of…