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Function

Continuous character contrasts

Description

Phylip contrast documentation.

Usage

Here is a sample session with econtrast


% econtrast 
Continuous character contrasts
Phylip continuous character frequency file: contrast.dat
Phylip tree file: contrast.tree
Analyze multiple data sets [N]: 
Phylip contrast program output file [econtrast.outfile]: 

Go to the input files for this example
Go to the output files for this example

Command line arguments

Continuous character contrasts
Version: EMBOSS:6.6.0.0

   Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers (* if not always prompted):
  [-infile]            infile     Phylip continuous character frequency file
  [-treefile]          infile     Phylip tree file
   -multsets           toggle     [N] Analyze multiple data sets
*  -datasets           integer    [1] How many data sets (Integer 1 or more)
  [-outfile]           outfile    [econtrast.outfile] Phylip contrast program
                                  output file

   Additional (Optional) qualifiers:
   -[no]corplusreg     boolean    [Y] Print out correlations and regressions
   -printdata          boolean    [N] Print out the data at start of run
   -progress           boolean    [N] Print indications of progress of run

   Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers: (none)
   Associated qualifiers:

   "-outfile" associated qualifiers
   -odirectory3        string     Output directory

   General qualifiers:
   -auto               boolean    Turn off prompts
   -stdout             boolean    Write first file to standard output
   -filter             boolean    Read first file from standard input, write
                                  first file to standard output
   -options            boolean    Prompt for standard and additional values
   -debug              boolean    Write debug output to program.dbg
   -verbose            boolean    Report some/full command line options
   -help               boolean    Report command line options and exit. More
                                  information on associated and general
                                  qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose
   -warning            boolean    Report warnings
   -error              boolean    Report errors
   -fatal              boolean    Report fatal errors
   -die                boolean    Report dying program messages
   -version            boolean    Report version number and exit

Qualifier Type Description Allowed values Default
Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers
[-infile]
(Parameter 1)
infile Phylip continuous character frequency file Input file Required
[-treefile]
(Parameter 2)
infile Phylip tree file Input file Required
-multsets toggle Analyze multiple data sets Toggle value Yes/No No
-datasets integer How many data sets Integer 1 or more 1
[-outfile]
(Parameter 3)
outfile Phylip contrast program output file Output file econtrast.outfile
Additional (Optional) qualifiers
-[no]corplusreg boolean Print out correlations and regressions Boolean value Yes/No Yes
-printdata boolean Print out the data at start of run Boolean value Yes/No No
-progress boolean Print indications of progress of run Boolean value Yes/No No
Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers
(none)
Associated qualifiers
"-outfile" associated outfile qualifiers
-odirectory3
-odirectory_outfile
string Output directory Any string  
General qualifiers
-auto boolean Turn off prompts Boolean value Yes/No N
-stdout boolean Write first file to standard output Boolean value Yes/No N
-filter boolean Read first file from standard input, write first file to standard output Boolean value Yes/No N
-options boolean Prompt for standard and additional values Boolean value Yes/No N
-debug boolean Write debug output to program.dbg Boolean value Yes/No N
-verbose boolean Report some/full command line options Boolean value Yes/No Y
-help boolean Report command line options and exit. More information on associated and general qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose Boolean value Yes/No N
-warning boolean Report warnings Boolean value Yes/No Y
-error boolean Report errors Boolean value Yes/No Y
-fatal boolean Report fatal errors Boolean value Yes/No Y
-die boolean Report dying program messages Boolean value Yes/No Y
-version boolean Report version number and exit Boolean value Yes/No N

Input file format

Input files for usage example

File: contrast.dat

    5   2
Homo        4.09434  4.74493
Pongo       3.61092  3.33220
Macaca      2.37024  3.36730
Ateles      2.02815  2.89037
Galago     -1.46968  2.30259

File: contrast.tree

((((Homo:0.21,Pongo:0.21):0.28,Macaca:0.49):0.13,Ateles:0.62):0.38,Galago:1.00);

Output file format

Output files for usage example

File: econtrast.outfile


Contrasts (columns are different characters)
--------- -------- --- --------- -----------

   0.74593   2.17989
   1.58474   0.71761
   1.19293   0.86790
   3.35832   0.89706

Covariance matrix
---------- ------

    3.9423    1.7028
    1.7028    1.7062

Regressions (columns on rows)
----------- -------- -- -----

    1.0000    0.4319
    0.9980    1.0000

Correlations
------------

    1.0000    0.6566
    0.6566    1.0000

Data files

None

Notes

None

References

None

Warnings

None

Diagnostics

None

Exit status

It always exits with status 0.

Known bugs

None.

See also

Program name Description
econtml Continuous character maximum likelihood method
fcontrast Continuous character contrasts

Author(s)

(c) Copyright 1986-1993 by Joseph Felsenstein and by the University of Washington. Written by Joseph Felsenstein. Permission is granted to copy this document provided that no fee is charged for it and that this copyright notice is not removed.

This application was modified for inclusion in EMBOSS by Ian Longden (il@sanger.ac.uk) Informatics Division, The Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK.

History

Target users

This program is intended to be used by everyone and everything, from naive users to embedded scripts.

Comments

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