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Computing the Distribution of a Tree Metric
David Bryant, Mike Steel
The Robinson-Foulds (RF) distance is by far the most widely used measure of dissimilarity between trees. Although the distribution of these distances has been investigated for twen…
q-bio.PE2008
Hadamard Phylogenetic Methods and the n-taxon process
David Bryant
The Hadamard transform of \cite{Hendy89a, Hendy89} provides a way to work with stochastic models for sequence evolution without having to deal with the complications of tree space…
q-bio.PE2008
Properties of Consensus Methods for Inferring Species Trees from Gene Trees
James H. Degnan
Consensus methods provide a useful strategy for combining information from a collection of gene trees. An important application of consensus methods is to combine gene trees to est…