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phangorn (version 0.0-1)

treedist: 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.differencesymmetric.difference
  • branch.score.differencebranch.score.difference
  • path.differencepath.difference
  • weighted.path.differenceweighted.path.difference

References

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