title: Test a clade in phylogenetic trees.
abstract: We develop a new method for testing a portion of a tree (called a clade) based on multiple tests of many 4-taxon trees in this paper. This is particularly useful when the phylogenetic tree constructed by other methods have a clade that is difficult to explain from a biological point of view. The statement about the test of the clade can be made through the multiple P values from these individual tests. By controlling the familywise error rate or the false discovery rate (FDR), 4 different tree test methods are evaluated through simulation methods. It shows that the combination of the approximately unbiased (AU) test and the FDR-controlling procedure provides strong power along with reasonable type I error rate and less heavy computation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. shi@mathstat.dal.ca
authors.forename: Xiaofei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Field
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001699:Biometry; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002965:Classification; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010802:Phylogeny