treedist {phangorn}R Documentation

Distances between trees

Description

treedist computes different tree distance methods.

Usage

treedist(tree1, tree2)

Arguments

tree1 A phylogenetic tree.
tree2 A phylogenetic tree.

Value

treedist returns list containing the following tree distance methods

symmetric.difference symmetric.difference
branch.score.difference branch.score.difference
path.difference path.difference
weighted.path.difference weighted.path.difference

Author(s)

Klaus P. Schliep K.P.Schliep@massey.ac.nz

References

Steel M. A. and Penny P. (1993) Distributions of tree comparision metrics - some new results, Syst. Biol.,42(2), 126-141


[Package phangorn version 0.0-5 Index]