Selva Brasilis

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Sunday, May 13, 2007

Statistical Analysis of Evolutionary Trees

Susan Holmes, a statistician at Stanford University, and mathematicians Louis Billera and Karen Vogtmann of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., have found a way to quantify the difference between two trees, effectively determining the distance between them. They used this distance function to construct a "space" of trees, a sort of theoretical forest.
SELVA BRASILIS at 11:21 AM
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