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Methods of reconstructing phylogeny generally cannot be validated by comparison with the true phylogeny. This is an obvious hindrance in debates concerning the relative merits of various taxonomic approaches. In order to be able to compare estimated trees with “true” phylogenies, I have developed a simulation model that generates artificial data sets with properties expected of real data sets, and having a known phylogeny.
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Fiala, K.L. (1983). A Simulation Model for Comparing Numerical Taxonomic Methods. In: Felsenstein, J. (eds) Numerical Taxonomy. NATO ASI Series, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69024-2_11
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