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A Hypothesis‐Independent Method of Character Weighting for Cladistic Analysis
Author(s) -
Sharkey Michael J.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
cladistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.323
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1096-0031
pISSN - 0748-3007
DOI - 10.1111/j.1096-0031.1989.tb00483.x
Subject(s) - cladogram , weighting , cladistics , character (mathematics) , biology , electre , mathematics , statistics , artificial intelligence , computer science , phylogenetic tree , operations research , geometry , multiple criteria decision analysis , genetics , gene , medicine , radiology
— A hypothesis‐independent method of weighting cladistir characters, based on character compatibility, is proposed. The method is used in two fashions, to generate cladograms, and to select from multiple minimum length cladograms. To illustrate the techniques, published data on Hoplinema (Coleoptera) are reanalysed. The method is contrasted with other weighting techniques which arc generally found to be hypothesis dependent.