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Figure 3

From: Analysis on the reconstruction accuracy of the Fitch method for inferring ancestral states

Figure 3

The reconstruction accuracies from all the leaves as well as from a root-to-leaf path in an equal-branch comb-shaped tree T n with n large for 2, 4, 5 and 20 states models. Figure 3 (a)-(d) show the trend of reconstruction accuracies with the increase of conservation probability for the number of states 2, 4, 5 and 20 respectively. The dashed line denotes the unambiguous reconstruction accuracy by using all the leaves, the solid line denotes the ambiguous reconstruction accuracy by using all the leaves, and the diamonds the unambiguous and ambiguous accuracy by using the nearest root-to-leaf path. Note that the unambiguous and ambiguous accuracies by the nearest root-to-leaf path are the same.

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