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Paper accepted: A parametrized family of Tversky metrics connecting the Jaccard distance to an analogue of the normalized information distance

Otu and Sayood's metrics \(d, d_1, d^*, d_1^*\) were tested on a set of virus genomes: Covid-19, Sars 2003, Ebola, HIV, common cold. They all agreed that the phylogenetic tree should be:

[
	
				[
					sarsBJ,covid
				],
				[
					ebola,
					[
						hiv,commonCold
					]
				]
			]
			

except that \(d_1\), the one without a denominator and using max instead of +, thought that Sars and Covid were not that closely related. None of them found the correct tree.