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COMBINATORIAL WEIGHTS IN PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS: A STATISTICAL PARSIMONY PROCEDURE
Author(s) -
Wheeler Ward C.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
cladistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.323
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1096-0031
pISSN - 0748-3007
DOI - 10.1111/j.1096-0031.1990.tb00543.x
Subject(s) - cladogram , phylogenetic tree , weighting , sampling (signal processing) , statistics , sequence (biology) , mathematics , biology , cladistics , computer science , genetics , gene , medicine , radiology , filter (signal processing) , computer vision
— A data dependent weighting procedure is developed to allow the comparison of phylogenetic trees based on nucleic acid sequence data. The sampling error of this cladogram “cost” is then examined, permitting statistical evaluation of the cost differential.