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As demonstrated in our previous work on \({\varvec{T}}_{\!4}\), the space of phylogenetic trees with four leaves, the topological structure of the space plays an important role in the non-classical limiting behaviour of the sample Fréchet means in \({\varvec{T}}_{\!4}\). Nevertheless, the techniques used in that paper cannot be adapted to analyse Fréchet means in the space \({\varvec{T}}_{\!m}\) of phylogenetic trees with \(m(\geqslant \!5)\) leaves. To investigate the latter, this paper first studies the log map of \({\varvec{T}}_{\!m}\). Then, in terms of a modified version of this map, we characterise Fréchet means in \({\varvec{T}}_{\!m}\) that lie in top-dimensional or co-dimension one strata. We derive the limiting distributions for the corresponding sample Fréchet means, generalising our previous results. In particular, the results show that, although they are related to the Gaussian distribution, the forms taken by the limiting distributions depend on the co-dimensions of the strata in which the Fréchet means lie.

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H. Le acknowledges funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. M. Owen acknowledges the support of the Fields Institute.

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Barden, D., Le, H. & Owen, M. Limiting behaviour of Fréchet means in the space of phylogenetic trees. Ann Inst Stat Math 70, 99–129 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10463-016-0582-9

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