Polyhedral computational geometry for averaging metric phylogenetic trees.

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Title: Polyhedral computational geometry for averaging metric phylogenetic trees.
Authors: Miller, Ezra1 ezra@math.duke.edu, Owen, Megan2 megan.owen@lehman.cuny.edu, Provan, J. Scott3 scott_provan@unc.edu
Source: Advances in Applied Mathematics. Jul2015, Vol. 68, p51-91. 41p.
Subjects: Polyhedra models, Computational geometry, Phylogeny, Tree graphs, Analysis of variance
Abstract: This paper investigates the computational geometry relevant to calculations of the Fréchet mean and variance for probability distributions on the phylogenetic tree space of Billera, Holmes and Vogtmann, using the theory of probability measures on spaces of nonpositive curvature developed by Sturm. We show that the combinatorics of geodesics with a specified fixed endpoint in tree space are determined by the location of the varying endpoint in a certain polyhedral subdivision of tree space. The variance function associated to a finite subset of tree space has a fixed C ∞ algebraic formula within each cell of the corresponding subdivision, and is continuously differentiable in the interior of each orthant of tree space. We use this subdivision to establish two iterative methods for producing sequences that converge to the Fréchet mean: one based on Sturm's Law of Large Numbers, and another based on descent algorithms for finding optima of smooth functions on convex polyhedra. We present properties and biological applications of Fréchet means and extend our main results to more general globally nonpositively curved spaces composed of Euclidean orthants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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  Data: This paper investigates the computational geometry relevant to calculations of the Fréchet mean and variance for probability distributions on the phylogenetic tree space of Billera, Holmes and Vogtmann, using the theory of probability measures on spaces of nonpositive curvature developed by Sturm. We show that the combinatorics of geodesics with a specified fixed endpoint in tree space are determined by the location of the varying endpoint in a certain polyhedral subdivision of tree space. The variance function associated to a finite subset of tree space has a fixed C ∞ algebraic formula within each cell of the corresponding subdivision, and is continuously differentiable in the interior of each orthant of tree space. We use this subdivision to establish two iterative methods for producing sequences that converge to the Fréchet mean: one based on Sturm's Law of Large Numbers, and another based on descent algorithms for finding optima of smooth functions on convex polyhedra. We present properties and biological applications of Fréchet means and extend our main results to more general globally nonpositively curved spaces composed of Euclidean orthants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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