Robinson–Foulds metric

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title: Robinson–Foulds metric
text: The Robinson–Foulds or symmetric difference metric, often abbreviated as the RF distance, is a simple way to calculate the distance between phylogenetic trees. It is defined as where A is the number of partitions of data implied by the first tree but not the second tree and B is the number of partitions of data implied by the second tree but not the first tree. The partitions are calculated for each tree by removing each branch. Thus, the number of eligible partitions for each tree is equal to t
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