The number of evolutionary steps on random and minimum length trees for random evolutionary data

DOI10.1006/TPBI.1993.1003MaRDI QIDQ1803904zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors James W. Archie, Joseph Felsenstein

Publication date 29 June 1993

Published in Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/tpbi.1993.1003

zbMATH Keywords

simulationvarianceapproximationsexpected numbercharacter state distributionsminimum length treesmissing-value datamodel of evolutionarily uninformative datanumber of steps on random treesphylogenetic branchingrandom evolutionary data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of graph theory (05C90) Problems related to evolution (92D15)

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