Number of trees consistent with split

Calculates the number of unrooted bifurcating trees consistent with the specified multi-partition split, using theorem two of Carter et al. (1990) .

UnrootedTreesMatchingSplit(...)

LnUnrootedTreesMatchingSplit(...)

Log2UnrootedTreesMatchingSplit(...)

Arguments

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A series or vector of integers listing the number of tips in each of a number of tree splits (e.g. bipartitions). For example, 3, 5 states that a character divides a set of eight tips into a group of three and a group of five.

Value

UnrootedTreesMatchingSplit() returns an integer specifying the number of unrooted bifurcating trees consistent with the specified split.

References

Carter M, Hendy M, Penny D, Székely LA, Wormald NC (1990). “On the distribution of lengths of evolutionary trees.” SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 3(1), 38--47. doi:10.1137/0403005 .

See also

Other split information functions: CharacterInformation(), SplitInformation(), SplitMatchProbability(), TreesMatchingSplit()

Author

Martin R. Smith (martin.smith@durham.ac.uk)

Examples

UnrootedTreesMatchingSplit(c(3, 5))
#> [1] 315
UnrootedTreesMatchingSplit(3, 2, 1, 2)
#> [1] 297