Some uses of the Farris transform in mathematics and phylogenetics-a review

Annals of Combinatorics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-37

  Dress, A ^a   Huber, K T ^b   Moulton, V ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Additive map; Covariance mapping; Farris transform; Gromov product; Gromov transform; Linnean map; T theory; Tree metric; Ultra metric

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248165564     PISSN: 02180006     EISSN: 02193094     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00026-007-0302-5     Document Type: Article

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