Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10331365 Information Processing Letters 2005 6 Pages PDF
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In this paper, we study the performance of Saitou and Nei's neighbor-joining method for phylogenetic reconstruction. We show that the edge l∞ radius of the method is at least 16. This partially answers a question by Atteson (1999). Previously, only an upper bound of 14 was known.
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A lower bound on the edge l∞ radius of Saitou and Nei's method for phylogenetic reconstruction
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