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Stochastic models of evolution (Markov random fields on trivalent trees) generally assume that different characters (different runs of the stochastic process) are independent and identically distributed. In this paper we take the first steps towards addressing dependent characters. Specifically we show that, under certain technical assumptions regarding the evolution of individual characters, we can detect any significant, history independent, correlation between any pair of multistate characters. For the special case of the Cavender-Farris-Neyman (CFN) model on two states with symmetric transition matrices, our analysis needs milder assumptions. To perform the analysis, we need to prove a new concentration result for multistate random variables of a Markov random field on arbitrary trivalent trees: we show that the random variable counting the number of leaves in any particular subset of states has variance that is subquadratic in the number of leaves.
The puzzle presented by the famous stumps of Gilboa, New York, finds a solution in the discovery of two fossil specimens that allow the entire structure of these early trees to be reconstructed.
We consider a biased random walk $X_n$ on a Galton-Watson tree with leaves in the sub-ballistic regime. We prove that there exists an explicit constant $gamma= gamma(beta) in (0,1)$, depending on the bias $beta$, such that $X_n$ is of order $n^{gamma
In a recent paper, Klaere et al. modeled the impact of substitutions on arbitrary branches of a phylogenetic tree on an alignment site by the so-called One Step Mutation (OSM) matrix. By utilizing the concept of the OSM matrix for the four-state nucl
Applying a method to reconstruct a phylogenetic tree from random data provides a way to detect whether that method has an inherent bias towards certain tree `shapes. For maximum parsimony, applied to a sequence of random 2-state data, each possible b
We present an efficient and flexible method for computing likelihoods of phenotypic traits on a phylogeny. The method does not resort to Monte-Carlo computation but instead blends Felsensteins discrete character pruning algorithm with methods for num