sackin.phylo: Sackin index

In phyloTop: Calculating Topological Properties of Phylogenies

Sackin index

Description

Finds the Sackin index for a tree. Note that the package apTreeshape has a function sackin to compute the Sackin index with additional options to normalise it based on the model; we include this simple function here for convenience within this package, and for use on objects of class phylo and phylo4.

Usage

sackin.phylo(tree, normalise = FALSE)

Arguments

tree	a tree of class phylo or phylo4. The tree should be binary and rooted; if not it will be coerced into a binary rooted tree using multi2di, if possible.
normalise	option to normalise the result, default is FALSE.

Value

The Sackin index of the tree.

Author(s)

Michael Boyd [e-mail]

Michelle Kendall [e-mail]

Examples

## Sackin index of a random tree with 10 tips:
sackin.phylo(rtree(10))

## normalised Sackin index:
sackin.phylo(rtree(10), normalise=TRUE)

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