Algorithms, data structures, and numerics for likelihood-based phylogenetic inference of huge trees

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 7 Correlations between CAT and Γ models for the 38 k dataset

37831 taxa, 32 ML trees
Number of per-site rate categories	8	16	25	40
Average BL correlation with Γ	0.994	0.995	0.995	0.995
Average Tree length ratio (Γ/CAT)	1.743	1.739	1.739	1.739
Spearman rank correlation(Γ, CAT)	0.994	0.992	0.992	0.992

Correlation between CAT and Γ-based ML branch length estimates, total tree length ratios, and Spearman rank correlation coefficients between likelihood-induced tree rankings obtained from CAT and Γ for dataset 38 K.

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