The species tree may be rooted or unrooted, but must have edge lengths given in coalescent units. Note that while the MSC
requires a rooted metric species tree parameter, as shown in Allman2011MSCquartets the quartet CFs are independent
of the root.
In the returned table, columns are labeled by taxon names and quartet names ("12|34", etc.).
1s and 0s in taxon columns indicate the taxa in a quartet. Quartet 12|34 means the first and second
indicated taxa form a cherry, 13|24 means the first and third form a cherry, and 14|23 means
the first and fourth form a cherry. Unresolved quartets always have expectation 0 under the MSC.
If a simplex plot is produced, for the T1
model all CFs will lie on the vertical model line,
and many choices of 4 taxa will give the same CFs. For model T3
the model lines the CFs are
plotted on depend on taxon names and are essentially arbitrary.