Cophenetic metrics for phylogenetic trees, after Sokal and Rohlf

Correlation between metrics over phylogenetic trees with 4 leaves

Non-necessary binary phylogenetic trees

Spearman's correlation between cophenetic, nodal and RF metrics.

 Cophenetic p=1Cophenetic p=2Nodalsp p=1Nodalsp p=2RF
Coph p=11.00.956532510.851123020.918750170.72099989
Coph p=2 1.00.854365570.930304770.72441285
Nsp p=1  1.00.958823770.86230593
Nsp p=2   1.00.87136622
RF    1.0


2D histograms. A darker squeare means that there are more trees with that relationship.

 Cophenetic p=2Nodalsp p=1Nodalsp p=2RF
Coph p=1
Coph p=2 
Nsp p=1  
Nsp p=2   

Binary phylogenetic trees

Spearman's correlation between cophenetic, nodal and RF metrics.

 Cophenetic p=1Cophenetic p=2Nodalsp p=1Nodalsp p=2Nodalunsp p=1Nodalunsp p=2RF
Coph p=11.00.981402740.969734250.969734250.306426210.343236080.79129215
Coph p=2 1.00.991646090.991646090.353998690.424210310.8383933
Nsp p=1  1.01.00.398136590.469764670.86988633
Nsp p=2   1.00.398136590.469764670.86988633
Nunsp p=1    1.00.960610140.79247737
Nunsp p=2     1.00.83612114
RF      1.0


2D histograms. A darker squeare means that there are more trees with that relationship.

 Cophenetic p=2Nodalsp p=1Nodalsp p=2Nodalunsp p=1Nodalunsp p=2RF
Coph p=1
Coph p=2 
Nsp p=1  
Nsp p=2   
Nunsp p=1    
Nunsp p=2