This objective function attempts to find the tree that minimizes the discrepancy between the observed distances between a pair of taxa (based on branch lengths of the tree) and the expected distances from a distance matrix.
The contemporary taxa in a dataset (as opposed to the reconstructed ancestral taxa). Also known as terminal tips.
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