Re: [R-sig-phylo] tree shape - unrooted trees

2013-07-30 Thread Blum michael
Dear Fabricia, You can compute the mean distance between leaves in the tree. For each pair of leaves, the distance between them equals the number of edges that separate them. Unfortunately, I do not know any R function that performs the computations but you can write your own function. Since

Re: [R-sig-phylo] apTreeshape and as.treeshape

2013-06-10 Thread Blum michael
Dear Fabricia, I am the maintainer of the package. Can you send me the tree that is responsible for the warnings please. It might be because of unresolved nodes. Sincerely Michael Blum Le 10/06/13 17:53, Fabricia Nascimento a écrit : Hi, I am trying to use the collies.test and maxlik.betaspl

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Problems with as.phylo.treeshape (library apTreeshape)

2012-10-25 Thread Blum michael
Yes there is a current problem with the function as.phylo. I rewrote a small function maxlik.betasplit2 which works without as.phylo. I will update the package soon. > maxlik.betasplit2(TR2,confidence.interval = "profile") $max_lik [1] 0.2103724 $conf_interval [1] -1.017374 3.157280 maxlik.be

Re: [R-sig-phylo] apTreeshape and odd Colless scores

2012-09-03 Thread Blum michael
Dear Simon, Normalization does not necessarily returns values between 0 and 1 but returns the values of the summary statistics divided by the standard deviation of the summary statistics that is expected under the Yule model. If you want to use that renormalization to compare tree shapes for

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Best way to summarize a tree balance statistic over a posterior tree distribution?

2012-06-15 Thread Blum michael
My admittedly biased advice would be to use the beta-splitting statistic. The statistic is available in the apTreeshape package. What is nice with this statistic is that its value should be interpretable whatever the sizes of the trees you are looking at. Beta=0 is the yule model, beta=-3/2 is

Re: [R-sig-phylo] apTreeshape

2010-03-19 Thread Blum michael
Dear all, The package apTreeshape is back on CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/apTreeshape/index.html). I hope that this short interruption did not cause you too much trouble. Sincerely, Michael Blum -- -- Michael BLUM Chargé de recherche (CR2 CNRS) (Research