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Felsenstein's tree-pruning algorithm

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Felsenstein's tree peeling algorithm, due to Joseph Felsenstein is an algorithm for computing the likelihood of a coalescent tree from a set of genotypes.

References

  • Felsenstein, Joseph (1981). "Evolutionary trees from DNA sequences: a maximum likelihood approach". J Mol Evol. 17: 368โ€“376. PMID 7288891.