Re: Cladistics algorithm?

[Marilyn Wegweiser <mdwegweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu>]

At 1:11 PM -0500 01/31/2001, Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette wrote:
> Thanks for this... and...
>
> Marilyn Wegweiser wrote:
>
> >  >Can anyone supply the algorithm (or algorithms) that are used for
> >  >cladistic analysis?
> >
> >  Use the program PAUP, or MacClade - I'm not sure of what others that
> >  people use.
>
> What, exactly, goes on inside that software?
>
> What numbers does it crunch and... how?
>
> ES

SORRY!
(wired)

I am Most Definitely Forgetting that many of you do not know that I 
am an incurable smarta** at times- I must then:

The algorithm is just a matrix. . . see any good Calculus/Analytical 
Geometry book and if I am not mistaken you may/will want to read the 
chapter on Infinite Series...... take some pain killer with you. ;^)

Cheers!
Marilyn
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