calcCladeStats: Calculate clade stats

Description Usage Arguments Details References

Description

Return a dataframe of stats for dataframe produced from getCladeSuccess().

Usage

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Arguments

clades

dataframe where columns are clades and rows are numbers of descendents by time step as returned by getCladeSuccess()

Details

The function calculates the following statistics for each clade:

tot.size: the total number of tips in the clade through time

max.size: the maximum number of tips in the clade in one time step

time.span: the number of time steps the clade existed

start: the starting time step

end: the ending time step

cm: the centre of mass of the clade

cg: the centre of gyration of the clade

References

Gould, S. J., Gilinsky, N. L., & German, R. Z. (1987). Asymmetry of lineages and the direction of evolutionary time. Science (New York, N.Y.), 236(4807), 1437–1441.


DomBennett/MoreTreeTools documentation built on May 6, 2019, 2:51 p.m.