Abstract
A widely studied model for generating sequences is to “evolve” them on a tree according to a symmetric Markov process. We prove that model trees tend to be maximally “far apart” in terms of variational distance.
Citation
M. A. Steel. L. A. Székely. "On the variational distance of two trees." Ann. Appl. Probab. 16 (3) 1563 - 1575, August 2006. https://doi.org/10.1214/105051606000000196
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