Computational Complexity
Finding the tree and branch lengths minimizing the least squares residual is an NP-complete problem. However, for a given tree, the optimal branch lengths can be determined in time for ordinary least squares, time for weighted least squares, and time for generalised least squares (given the inverse of the covariance matrix).
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