Three-way symbolic tree-maps and ultrametrics

Huber, Katharina T., Moulton, Vincent ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9371-6435 and Scholz, Guillaume E. (2019) Three-way symbolic tree-maps and ultrametrics. Journal of Classification, 36 (3). pp. 513-540. ISSN 0176-4268

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Abstract

Three-way dissimilarities are a generalization of (two-way) dissimilarities which can be used to indicate the lack of homogeneity or resemblance between any three objects. Such maps have applications in cluster analysis and have been used in areas such as psychology and phylogenetics, where three-way data tables can arise. Special examples of such dissimilarities are three-way tree-metrics and ultrametrics, which arise from leaf-labelled trees with edges labelled by positive real numbers. Here we consider three-way maps which arise from leaf-labelled trees where instead the interior vertices are labelled by an arbitrary set of values. For unrooted trees, we call such maps three-way symbolic tree-maps; for rooted trees, we call them three-way symbolic ultrametrics since they can be considered as a generalization of the (two-way) symbolic ultrametrics of Bocker and Dress. We show that, as with two- and three-way tree-metrics and ultrametrics, three-way symbolic tree-maps and ultrametrics can be characterized via certain k-point conditions. In the unrooted case, our characterization is mathematically equivalent to one presented by Gurvich for a certain class of edge-labelled hypergraphs. We also show that it can be decided whether or not an arbitrary three-way symbolic map is a tree-map or a symbolic ultrametric using a triplet-based approach that relies on the so-called BUILD algorithm for deciding when a set of 3-leaved trees or triplets can be displayed by a single tree. We envisage that our results will be useful in developing new approaches and algorithms for understanding 3-way data, especially within the area of phylogenetics.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	three-way dissimilarity,three-way symbolic map,symbolic ultrametric,ultrametric,tree-metric,phylogenetic tre
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences Faculty of Science
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Computational Biology Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Computational Biology > Phylogenetics (former - to 2018) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Computational Biology > Computational biology of RNA (former - to 2018) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre
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Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	31 Oct 2017 06:07
Last Modified:	14 Jun 2023 13:10
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/65297
DOI:	10.1007/s00357-018-9274-x

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