JSDtree: Jensen-Shannon distance between phylogenies
Description
Computes the Jensen-Shannon distance metric between spectral density profiles of phylogenies.
Usage
JSDtree(phylo,meth=c("standard"))
Value
a matrix providing the Jensen-Shannon distance values between phylogeny pairs
Arguments
phylo
a list of objects of type 'phylo' (see ape documentation)
meth
the method used to compute the spectral density, which can either be "standard", "normal1", or "normal2". if set to "normal1", computes the spectral density normalized to the degree matrix. if set to "normal2", computes the spectral density normalized to the number of eigenvalues. if set to "standard", computes the unnormalized version of the spectral density (see the associated paper for an explanation)
Author
E Lewitus
References
Lewitus, E., Morlon, H., Characterizing and comparing phylogenies from their Laplacian spectrum, bioRxiv doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/026476