Title
The mean value of the squared path-difference distance for rooted phylogenetic trees
Abstract
The path-difference metric is one of the oldest distances for the comparison of fully resolved phylogenetic trees, but its statistical properties are still quite unknown. In this paper we compute the mean value of the square of the path-difference metric between two fully resolved rooted phylogenetic trees with n leaves, under the uniform distribution. This complements previous work by Steel and Penny, who computed this mean value for fully resolved unrooted phylogenetic trees.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1016/j.jmaa.2010.05.001
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Phylogenetic trees,Path-difference metric,Nodal distance,Hypergeometric series
Journal
371
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0022-247X
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.06
10
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arnau Mir15914.40
Francesc Rosselló224429.09