Covariance of maximum likelihood evolutionary distances between sequences aligned pairwise
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Fast and accurate estimation of the covariance between pairwise maximum likelihood distances
Pairwise evolutionary distances are a model-based summary statistic for a set of molecular sequences. They represent the leaf-to-leaf path lengths of the underlying phylogenetic tree. Estimates of pairwise distances with overlapping paths covary because of shared mutation events. It is desirable to take these covariance structure into account to increase precision in any process that compares o...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Evolutionary Biology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1471-2148
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-179