Subtree prune and regraft: A reversible real tree-valued Markov process

Annals of Probability

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 918-961

  Evans, Steven N ^a   Winter, Anita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brownian excursion; Continuum random tree; Dirichlet form; Excursion theory; Gromov Hausdorff metric; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Path decomposition; Phylogenetic tree; Prohorov metric; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746227582     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009117906000000034     Document Type: Article

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