On the variational distance of two trees
M. A. Steel, L. A. Székely
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.
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