Cophenetic metrics for phylogenetic trees, after Sokal and Rohlf

Correlation between metrics over phylogenetic trees with 5 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=11.00.960207230.815807730.88440770.58118994
Coph p=2 1.00.839766730.917301130.60292443
Nsp p=1  1.00.95395040.74861058
Nsp p=2   1.00.73281646
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=11.00.96546450.90407450.943880710.106073050.080575520.59540585
Coph p=2 1.00.945797130.985069420.132225140.137621660.6411855
Nsp p=1  1.00.96082160.230878840.218586740.69840117
Nsp p=2   1.00.200111160.202830730.68983538
Nunsp p=1    1.00.929909950.67390241
Nunsp p=2     1.00.70708657
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