Computes the \(\delta\) score

Computes the treelikeness

Usage

delta.score(x, arg = "mean", ...)

Arguments

x: an object of class phyDat
arg: Specifies the return value, one of "all", "mean" or "sd"
...: further arguments passed through dist.hamming

Value

A vector containing the \(\delta\) scores.

References

BR Holland, KT Huber, A Dress, V Moulton (2002) \(\delta\) Plots: a tool for analyzing phylogenetic distance data Russell D. Gray, David Bryant, Simon J. Greenhill (2010) On the shape and fabric of human history Molecular Biology and Evolution, 19(12) 2051–2059

Russell D. Gray, David Bryant, Simon J. Greenhill (2010) On the shape and fabric of human history Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 365 3923–3933; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0162

Author

Alastair Potts and Klaus Schliep

Examples


data(yeast)
hist(delta.score(yeast, "all"))