An alternating least squares approach to inferring phylogenies from pairwise distances

Systematic Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 101-111

  Felsenstein, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternating least squares; Distance methods; Fitch Margoliash method; Phytogenies

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0031084471     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/46.1.101     Document Type: Article

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