Axioms for consensus functions on undirected phylogenetic trees

DOI10.1016/0025-5564(85)90022-7MaRDI QIDQ1060980zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors F. R. McMorris

Publication date 1985

Published in Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-5564(85)90022-7

zbMATH Keywords

consensus functions on undirected phylogenetic treestaxonomyversion of Arrow's impossibility theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Social choice (91B14) Mathematical sociology (including anthropology) (91D99) General biology and biomathematics (92B05) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Other natural sciences (mathematical treatment) (92F05)

Review text

A version of Arrow's impossibility theorem is established for consensus functions on undirected phylogenetic trees.

Cites work

• Consensus functions defined on trees
• Consensus n-trees
• Faithful consensus methods for n-trees
• Parallel concepts in graph theory
• Social choice and individual values
• Tree structures for proximity data

Cited in

(6)

• On the use of ordered sets in problems of comparison and consensus of classifications
• Consensus functions on trees that satisfy an independence axiom
• Consensus functions on tree quasi-orders that satisfy an independence condition
• Arrowian characterizations of latticial federation consensus functions
• An explicit computation of the injective hull of certain finite metric spaces in terms of their associated Buneman complex
• On an independence condition for consensus \(n\)-trees

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