Language distance and tree reconstruction

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2008, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Petroni, Filippo ^a   Serva, Maurizio ^b  

^a GRAPES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analysis of algorithms; New applications of statistical mechanics; Phylogeny (theory); Population dynamics (theory)

Indexed keywords

EID: 51349132648     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2008/08/P08012     Document Type: Article

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