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1	A NEW TEST TO BUILD CONFIDENCE REGIONS USING BALANCED MINIMUM EVOLUTION Dai, Wei 16 August 2013 (has links) In phylogenetic analysis, an important issue is to construct the confidence region for gene trees from DNA sequences. Usually estimation of the trees is the initial step. Maximum likelihood methods are widely applied but few tests are based on distance methods. In this thesis, we propose a new test based on balanced minimum evolution. We first examine the normality assumption of pairwise distance estimates under various model misspeci cations and also examine their variances, MSEs and squared biases. Then we compare the BME method with the WLS method in true tree reconstruction under different variance structures and model pairs. Finally, we develop a new test for finding a confidence region for the tree based on the BME method and demonstrate its effectiveness through simulation.
2	Facets of a Balanced Minimum Evolution Network Polytope Durell, Cassandra M. 27 June 2019 (has links) No description available. Mathematics Phylogenetics Polytope Facets Balanced Minimum Evolution Cylic Order Excluded Node Split Dimension Reducing Equalities Species Network Graph Symmetric Travelling Salesman Comb Comb Facets