Interesting question, Nate. Do I understand you to say that you have data on some variables (and not others) at internal nodes? If so, what happens when you just add those to the data, with NA to indicate missing values? Have you tried this?
A. On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Nathan Thompson < nathan.thomp...@stonybrook.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am performing an multivariate analysis in ouch on a group of extant > species. I would ideally like to include information for fossil taxa in the > analysis, however, no single fossil taxon preserves all of the variables of > interest. However, I have performed univariate ancestral state > reconstructions (with fossils) and obtained estimates of the node values. > > Is there any way, in a multivariate ouch analysis, to 'constrain' nodes to > certain values based on this a priori knowledge of ancestral states? > > I realize the alternative would be to just run separate univariate OU > analyses for each variable (including fossils), but I would like to do this > in a multivariate framework. > > Thank you, > > Nathan E Thompson > Doctoral Candidate > Dept. of Anatomical Sciences > Stony Brook University > nathan.thomp...@stonybrook.edu > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo > Searchable archive at > http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/ > -- Aaron A. King, Ph.D. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Mathematics Center for the Study of Complex Systems University of Michigan GPG Public Key: 0x15780975 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/
