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Statistical summaries of unlabelled evolutionary trees and ranked hierarchical clustering trees
Samyak Rajanala, Julia A. Palacios
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Rooted and ranked binary trees are mathematical objects of great importance used to model hierarchical data and evolutionary relationships with applications in many fields including evolutionary biology and genetic epidemiology. Bayesian phylogenetic inference usually explore the posterior distribution of trees via Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, however assessing uncertainty and summarizing distributions or samples of such trees remains challenging. While labelled phylogenetic trees have been extensively studied, relatively less literature exists for unlabelled trees which are increasingly useful, for example when one seeks to summarize samples of trees obtained with different methods, or from different samples and environments, and wishes to assess stability and generalizability of these summaries. In our paper, we exploit recently proposed distance metrics of unlabelled ranked binary trees and unlabelled ranked genealogies (equipped with branch lengths) to define the Frechet mean and variance as summaries of these tree distributions. We provide an efficient combinatorial optimization algorithm for computing the Frechet mean from a sample of or distribution on unlabelled ranked tree shapes and unlabelled ranked genealogies. We show the applicability of our summary statistics for studying popular tree distributions and for comparing the SARS-CoV-2 evolutionary trees across different locations during the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020.
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