PHYLOGENETIC METHODS
Character Importance Ranking (CIR)
Publication:
DeGusta D (2004) A method for estimating the relative importance of characters in cladistic analyses. Systematic Biology 53:529-532. [Abstract] [PDF]
CIR Program Files:
CIR Instructions.pdf (Adobe Acrobat Format) - revised Aug 05
CIR 3.1 (Nexus file format)
CIR 3.1cons (for consensus trees; Nexus file format)
CIR Data (Nexus file format)
CIR Means Excel Macro (Microsoft Excel file format) - new as of Aug 05
Sample Distances File Result (Microsoft Excel file format)
CIR Data Sets:
Anderberg 1986 Data File (Nexus file format)
Chamberlain and Wood 1987 Data File (Nexus file format)
Graham et al. 1991 Data File (Nexus file format)