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

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 8 Correlations between CAT and Γ models for the 56 k dataset

55593 taxa, 22 ML trees
Number of per-site rate categories	8	16	25	40
Average BL correlation with Γ	0.877	0.877	0.877	0.877
Average Tree length ratio (Γ/CAT)	1.569	1.567	1.567	1.608
Spearman rank correlation(Γ, CAT)	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0

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 55 K.

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