The triples distance for rooted bifurcating phylogenetic trees

Systematic Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 323-334

  Critchlow, Douglas E ^a   Pearl, Dennis K ^a   Qian, Chunlin ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypothesis test; Label invariant models; Random trees; Tree comparison metrics

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 0030311519     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/45.3.323     Document Type: Article

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