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The Rise of Statistical Phylogenetics
Author(s) -
Holland Barbara R.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-842X
pISSN - 1369-1473
DOI - 10.1111/anzs.12035
Subject(s) - phylogenetics , statistician , statistical inference , inference , phylogenetic tree , field (mathematics) , mathematics , data science , evolutionary biology , statistics , artificial intelligence , computer science , biology , biochemistry , gene , pure mathematics
Summary This paper provides a review of the many applications of statistics within the field of phylogenetics, that is, the study of evolutionary history. The reader is assumed to be a statistician rather than a phylogeneticist, so some background is given on what phylogenetics is, along with a brief history of different approaches to phylogenetic inference. The latter half of the paper focuses on a series of open statistical problems in the field with the aim of encouraging more statisticians to engage with this fascinating area of research.