A phyletic model for evaluating phylogenetic tree estimation

In the field of phylogenetics, a range of methods have been proposed for estimating phyletic trees and cladograms. However, it is not yet clear whether these methods work with real phyletic relationships. To give a foundation to evaluate these methods, we propose a phyletic model to generate various phyletic relationships in this paper. In experiments, we generated various phyletic relationships by the proposed model and evaluated an existing estimation method.