colless_quad {treestats}

Quadratic Colless index of (im)balance.

Description

The Quadratic Colless index is calculated as the sum of (L - R)^2 over all nodes.

Usage

colless_quad(phy, normalization = "none")

Arguments

phy

phylo object or ltable

normalization

A character string equals to "none" (default) for no normalization or "yule"

Value

quadratic colless index

References

Bartoszek, Krzysztof, et al. "Squaring within the Colless index yields a better balance index." Mathematical Biosciences 331 (2021): 108503.

Examples

simulated_tree <- ape::rphylo(n = 10, birth = 1, death = 0)
balanced_tree <- treestats::create_fully_balanced_tree(simulated_tree)
unbalanced_tree <- treestats::create_fully_unbalanced_tree(simulated_tree)
colless_quad(balanced_tree)
colless_quad(unbalanced_tree) # should be higher