[Mesquitelist] Summarise State Changes Over Trees

David Maddison beetle at ag.arizona.edu
Thu Feb 5 08:57:55 PST 2009


Aelys,

That's a very reasonable request.  Let me look 
into that, and see what might be done.

David

At 7:05 PM +0100 3/2/2009, Aelys Humphreys wrote:
>Hello,
>
>  Summarise State Changes Over Trees gives an 
>output of frequency of change between all states 
>and summarises it in terms of min, max and 
>average. It also displays the frequency of 
>number of changes (ie. in how many trees does a 
>certain transition change 0, 1, 2, 3, etc. 
>times). This is useful as you can then express 
>frequencies as percentiles rather than mean 
>values. Unfortunately, all frequencies above 9 
>transitions are lumped, so that information is 
>lost if a character changes, say, 10-15 times 
>across the trees. Can this output can be 
>manipulated?
>
>many thanks, 
>
>Aelys
>
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>Institut für Systematische Botanik
>Universität Zürich
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