This is a survey of the use of the bootstrap in the area of systematic and evolutionary biology. I present the current usage by biologists of the bootstrap as a tool both for making inferences and for evaluating robustness, and propose a framework for thinking about these problems in terms of mathematical statistics.
@article{1063994979,
author = {Holmes, Susan},
title = {Bootstrapping Phylogenetic Trees: Theory and Methods},
journal = {Statist. Sci.},
volume = {18},
number = {1},
year = {2003},
pages = { 241-255},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/1063994979}
}
Holmes, Susan. Bootstrapping Phylogenetic Trees: Theory and Methods. Statist. Sci., Tome 18 (2003) no. 1, pp. 241-255. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1063994979/