Bootstrapping Phylogenetic Trees: Theory and Methods
Susan Holmes
Source: Statist. Sci. Volume 18, Issue 2 (2003), 241-255.
Abstract
This is a survey of the use of the bootstrap in the area of systematic and evolutionary biology. I present the current usage by biologists of the bootstrap as a tool both for making inferences and for evaluating robustness, and propose a framework for thinking about these problems in terms of mathematical statistics.
Keywords: Bootstrap; phylogenetic trees; confidence regions; nonpositive curvature
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Digital Object Identifier: doi:10.1214/ss/1063994979
