Table 2

Statistical comparisons of the best neighbor-joining tree with the hypothesis 1 and hypothesis 2 trees

Kishino-Hasegawa test


Tree

Length

Length difference

SD (difference)

t

p*


Best

4951

-

Hypothesis 1

4966

15

11.9

1.26

0.211

Hypothesis 2

4974

23

10.8

2.12

0.036

Templeton (Wilcoxon signed-ranks) test


Tree

Length

Rank sums

N

z

p*


Best

4951

-

Hypothesis 1

4966

1418.0

69

-1.33

0.185

-997.0

Hypothesis 2

4974

1244.5

62

-1.97

0.048

-708.5

Winning-sites (sign) test


Tree

Length

Counts

p*


Best

4951

Hypothesis 1

4966

36

0.810

-33

Hypothesis 2

4974

40

0.031

-22


*Probability of getting a more extreme test statistic under the null hypothesis of no difference between the two trees (two-tailed test).

Koonin et al. Genome Biology 2003 4:R19   doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-3-r19

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