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additive: Incomplete Distance Matrix Filling

Description

Fills missing entries from incomplete distance matrix using the additive or the ultrametric procedure (see reference for details).

Usage

additive(X)
ultrametric(X)

Arguments

X

a distance matrix or an object of class "dist".

Value

a distance matrix.

References

Makarenkov, V. and Lapointe, F.-J. (2004) A weighted least-squares approach for inferring phylogenies from incomplete distance matrices. Bioinformatics, 20, 2113--2121.