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May 2003 Bootstrapping Phylogenetic Trees: Theory and Methods
Susan Holmes
Statist. Sci. 18(2): 241-255 (May 2003). DOI: 10.1214/ss/1063994979

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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.

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Susan Holmes. "Bootstrapping Phylogenetic Trees: Theory and Methods." Statist. Sci. 18 (2) 241 - 255, May 2003. https://doi.org/10.1214/ss/1063994979

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Published: May 2003
First available in Project Euclid: 19 September 2003

zbMATH: 1331.62244
MathSciNet: MR2026083
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/ss/1063994979

Keywords: bootstrap , Confidence regions , nonpositive curvature , phylogenetic trees

Rights: Copyright © 2003 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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