A consistency lemma in statistical phylogenetics
Populations and Evolution
2015-01-28 v1
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Mike Steel
Abstract
This short note provides a simple formal proof of a folklore result in statistical phylogenetics concerning the convergence of bootstrap support for a tree and its edges.
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@article{arxiv.1501.06623,
title = {A consistency lemma in statistical phylogenetics},
author = {Mike Steel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.06623},
year = {2015}
}
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