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Profile Parsimony (PP): an analysis under Implied Weights (IW)
Author(s) -
Arias J. Salvador,
MirandaEsquivel Daniel Rafael
Publication year - 2004
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.1096-0031.2003.00001.x
Subject(s) - phylogenetic tree , mathematics , maximum parsimony , statistics , computer science , biology , clade , gene , biochemistry
Faith and Trueman [Syst. Biol. (2001) 331] recently proposed “Profile Parsimony” (PP) as a new form of phylogenetic analysis, but it is equivalent to the Implied Weights (IW) method when certain functions are used. The PP method cannot accommodate missing/inapplicable cells and/or multistate characters. Finally we demonstrate that, as defined, PP scores are not random, and there is no need to generate random trees as proposed by Faith and Trueman.