On the variational distance of two trees
Steel, M. A. ; Székely, L. A.
Ann. Appl. Probab., Tome 16 (2006) no. 1, p. 1563-1575 / Harvested from Project Euclid
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A widely studied model for generating sequences is to “evolve” them on a tree according to a symmetric Markov process. We prove that model trees tend to be maximally “far apart” in terms of variational distance.
Publié le : 2006-08-14
Classification:  Cavender–Farris–Neyman model,  symmetric binary channel,  tree-based Markov process,  Yule–Harding distribution,  phylogeny reconstruction,  sequence evolution,  q-state Potts model,  Jukes–Cantor model,  variational distance,  62P10,  05C05,  05C80,  05C90,  92D15 
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Steel, M. A.; Székely, L. A. On the variational distance of two trees. Ann. Appl. Probab., Tome 16 (2006) no. 1, pp.  1563-1575. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1159804991/