CharacterInformation

<code>CharacterInformation()</code> calculates the cladistic information content
Steel2006TreeTools of a given character, in bits.
The total information in all characters gives a measure of the potential
utility of a dataset Cotton2008TreeTools, which can be
compared with a profile parsimony score Faith2001TreeTools to
evaluate the degree of homoplasy within a dataset.

Efficient implementations of functions for the creation,
modification and analysis of phylogenetic trees.
Applications include:
generation of trees with specified shapes;
tree rearrangement;
analysis of tree shape;
rooting of trees and extraction of subtrees;
calculation and depiction of split support;
plotting the position of rogue taxa (Klopfstein & Spasojevic 2019)
<doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0212942>;
calculation of ancestor-descendant relationships,
of 'stemwardness' (Asher & Smith, 2022) <doi:10.1093/sysbio/syab072>,
and of tree balance (Mir et al. 2013, Lemant et al. 2022)
<doi:10.1016/j.mbs.2012.10.005>, <doi:10.1093/sysbio/syac027>;
artificial extinction (Asher & Smith, 2022) <doi:10.1093/sysbio/syab072>;
import and export of trees from Newick, Nexus (Maddison et al. 1997)
<doi:10.1093/sysbio/46.4.590>,
and TNT <https://www.lillo.org.ar/phylogeny/tnt/> formats;
and analysis of splits and cladistic information.

Martin R. Smith

TreeTools

Create, Modify and Analyse Phylogenetic Trees

Emmanuel Paradis

Robert Noble

CharacterInformation function

<dl><dt>tokens</dt>
<dd>Character vector specifying the tokens assigned to each taxon for
a character. Example: <code>c(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, "?", "-")</code>.
Note that ambiguous tokens such as <code>(01)</code> are not supported, and should be
replaced with <code>?</code>.</dd></dl>

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<a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5660-1727">Martin R. Smith</a>
(<a href="/link/martin.smith%40durham.ac.uk?package=TreeTools&version=1.12.0" data-mini-rdoc="TreeTools::martin.smith@durham.ac.uk">martin.smith@durham.ac.uk</a>)

Author

Character information content — CharacterInformation

<dl>

<dt>tokens</dt>
<dd>Character vector specifying the tokens assigned to each taxon for
a character. Example: <code>c(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, "?", "-")</code>.
Note that ambiguous tokens such as <code>(01)</code> are not supported, and should be
replaced with <code>?</code>.</dd>

</dl>

<a href='https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5660-1727'>Martin R. Smith</a>
(<a href='mailto:martin.smith@durham.ac.uk'>martin.smith@durham.ac.uk</a>)

CharacterInformation: Character information content

Description

Usage

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Author

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