Statistical phylogenetic tree analysis using differences of means

We propose a statistical method to test whether two phylogenetic trees with given alignments are significantly incongruent. Our method compares the two distributions of phylogenetic trees given by the input alignments, instead of comparing point estimations of trees. This statistical approach can b...

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Main Authors: Elissaveta Arnaoudova, David C Haws, Peter Huggins, Jerzy Jaromczyk, Niel Moore, Christopher Schardl, Ruriko Yoshida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2010.00047/full