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Table 5. Summary of variations in inputs to phenetic analyses including datasets (composition of samples and morphological characters) and algorithms (classification, ordination, association measure) used to test the effect on results.
AnalysisNumber ofDatasetAssociationAnalysissamplesNumber of characters and formatmeasureBaseline24161, binary and multistateCzekanowski, GowerClassification, ordinationTest 110, 30161, binary and multistateGowerClassification, ordinationTest 210, 24Of the 161-baseline character set, 92 are multistate which were converted to binary creating 365 binaryGowerClassificationTest 321102, from Thompson and Fabillo (2021). Binary and multistate.GowerClassificationTest 424Fifteen datasets composed of batches of characters compiled from a list of most discriminating characters in a descending order based on Kruskal–Wallis values (Test 4). Datasets were created by successively removing batches of data for the next 10 least discriminating characters starting from 150 characters, and the next 150, 140, 130 and so on. Binary and multistate.Czekanowski, GowerClassificationTest 510, 24Fifteen from Morrone et al. (2012) that apply to taxa in this study. Binary and multistate.Czekanowski, GowerClassification
The baseline dataset consists of 24 samples, representing 24 putative species, and 161 morphological characters.