CHAIN_LETTER_TREE
Chain Letter Dendrogram Analysis
CHAIN_LETTER_TREE
a MATLAB program which
analyzes a similarity matrix for 11 versions of a single chain letter
and produces a dendrogram or tree diagram that suggests the degrees
of relatedness and the evolutionary history of the letters.
Licensing:
The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page
are distributed under
the GNU LGPL license.
Languages:
CHAIN_LETTER_TREE is available in
a MATLAB version.
Related Data and Programs:
CHAIN_LETTERS,
a dataset directory which
contains several examples of chain letters.
DISTANCE_TO_POSITION,
a MATLAB program which
estimates the positions of cities based on a city-to-city distance table.
Source Code:
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chain_letter_tree.m,
a MATLAB program to collate and plot the results of a classroom exercise,
in which a distance table was made for chain letters A through K;
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chain_letter_tree_output.txt,
the printed output from the program, a copy of the estimated distances.
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chain_letter_tree.png,
a PNG file which displays MATLAB's dendrogram of the chain letter distances,
using single linkage clustering;
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chain_letter_distance.txt,
an 11x11 table of "distances" between every pair of chain letters.
Examples and Data:
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luck_a.txt, example A;
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luck_b.txt, example B;
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luck_c.txt, example C;
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luck_d.txt, example D;
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luck_e.txt, example E;
quoted in a letter to Nature, Volume 371, 1 September 1994,
by Oliver Goodenough and Richard Dawkins.
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luck_f.txt, example F;
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luck_g.txt, example G;
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luck_h.txt, example H;
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luck_i.txt, example I;
appeared in the story "Philomena", by Jay McInerny,
The New Yorker, December 25, 1995 & 6 January 1, 1996.
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luck_j.txt, example J;
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luck_k.txt, example K;
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Last revised on 22 January 2014.