Central limit theorems for Fréchet means in the space of phylogenetic trees

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 18, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Barden, Dennis ^a   Le, Huiling ^b   Owen, Megan ^c  

^a GIRTON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Central limit theorem; Fr chet mean; Phylogenetic trees; Stratified manifold

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874393848     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v18-2201     Document Type: Article

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