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06081299 Sullivant, Seth The disentangling number for phylogenetic mixtures. SIAM J. Discrete Math. 26, No. 2, 856-859 (2012). 2012 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Philadelphia, PA EN leaf labeled trees phylogenetic mixture models disentangling number

doi:10.1137/110843459

Summary: We provide a logarithmic upper bound for the disentangling number on unordered lists of leaf labeled trees. This result is useful for analyzing phylogenetic mixture models. The proof depends on interpreting multisets of trees as high-dimensional contingency tables.