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Table 1: Summary of K analysis for forward and backward transition frequencies between different natural classes. The two rightmost columns indicate the total number of characters analysed and the percentage of those characters with a significant degree of phylogenetic signal according to the randomization procedure.
['Classes', 'Mean K', 'n characters', 'significant (%)']
All show highly similar distributions There is no statistically significant difference in the means of K for the three feature types, according to a one-way ANOVA (F(2,324)=0.05,p=0.95). An Anderson-Darling k-sample test, which tests the hypothesis that k independent samples come from a common, unspecified distribution (i.e., no prior assumption about normality) also finds no significant difference in the distributions of K scores for the three natural class-based datasets (AD=1.35, T.AD=−0.60, p=0.69).