Talk:Distance matrices in phylogeny

Article startup
At present this article is a huge and unsightly mess. I hope to bring make it shipshape within the next month or two, including sufficient references. --Ling.Nut 06:57, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Comments
"Neighbor-joining is a form of star decomposition and, ...". We need a reference here. 'star decomposition' here is a link to a non-existent wikipedia page. I suspect this statement is not correct; in any case it is not very helpful without a link to something defining 'star decomposition'. I was not able to google up a definition of 'star decomposition' easily. Similar statements appear in other wikipedia articles in discussions of neighbor-joining. tom fisher-york (talk) 04:27, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Pairwise distance
Can "Pairwise distance" be explained, or a link added to a site/dictionary-of-mathematical-terms to let people know what it actually means?

My concern here (and the reason I visited the article) is that lacking this detail, the article is rendered incaccessible because without it, what follows doesn't make sense.

FYI, I'm not a mathematician or expert in this and came to find out more. Gotheek (talk) 06:23, 19 January 2024 (UTC)