/delta_statistic

Codes for calculating delta, a phylogenetic analog of the Shannon entropy for measuring the degree of phylogenetic signal between a categorical trait and a phylogeny.

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Codes for calculating $\delta$, a phylogenetic analog of the Shannon entropy for measuring the degreed of phylogenetic signal between a categorical trait (trait vector) and a phylogeny (metric-tree). 

Please make sure you have the "ape" package instaled before running the examples or using these codes for your own purposes.

Please cite us:
Rui Borges, João Paulo Machado, Cidália Gomes, Ana Paula Rocha, Agostinho Antunes; Measuring phylogenetic signal between categorical traits and phylogenies, Bioinformatics, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty800