• DOI:10.1111/j.1096-0031.1991.tb00046.x
Corpus ID: 85132346

RANDOM DATA, HOMOPLASY AND INFORMATION

@article{Goloboff1991RANDOMDH,
  title={RANDOM DATA, HOMOPLASY AND INFORMATION},
  author={P. Goloboff},
  journal={Cladistics},
  year={1991},
  volume={7}
}

P. Goloboff

Published 1991

Computer Science

Cladistics

It is often assumed that homoplasy makes cladistic results uncertain. The minimum values that the consistency index C (Kluge and Fart-is, 1969) can achieve on most parsimonious trees decrease with number of taxa and have a more complex dependence with number of characters. Those minimum values have never been calculated, and therefore it is not known which values of C would indicate that there is as much homoplasy as is possible in a data set of a given size. Several authors have examined this… CONTINUE READING

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