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. 2011 Dec 13;12:470. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-470

Table 8.

Correlations between CAT and Γ models for the 56 k dataset

55593 taxa, 22 ML trees
Number of per-site rate categories 8 16 25 40

Average BL correlation with Γ 0.877 0.877 0.877 0.877

Average Tree length ratio (Γ/CAT) 1.569 1.567 1.567 1.608

Spearman rank correlation(Γ, CAT) 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0

Correlation between CAT and Γ-based ML branch length estimates, total tree length ratios, and Spearman rank correlation coefficients between likelihood-induced tree rankings obtained from CAT and Γ for dataset 55 K.