Realistic scenarios of missing taxa in phylogenetic comparative methods and their effects on model selection and parameter estimation

Model-based analyses of continuous trait evolution enable rich evolutionary insight. These analyses require a phylogenetic tree and a vector of trait values for the tree’s terminal taxa, but rarely do a tree and dataset include all taxa within a clade. Because the probability that a taxon is include...

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Main Author: Rafael S. Marcondes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2019-10-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/7917.pdf