CharacterInformation()
calculates the phylogenetic information content
of a given character.
CharacterInformation(tokens)
Character vector specifying the tokens assigned to each taxon for
a character. Example: c(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, '?', '-')
.
Note that ambiguous tokens such as (01)
are not supported, and should be
replaced with ?
.
CharacterInformation()
returns a numeric specifying the
phylogenetic information content of the character (sensu Steel & Penny
2006), in bits.
Steel2006TreeTools
Other split information functions:
SplitInformation()
,
SplitMatchProbability()
,
TreesMatchingSplit()
,
UnrootedTreesMatchingSplit()