Dear All,

I am learning to use fitDiscrete in geiger recently. Results on several
discrete characters look normal except for the following one. Can someone
please tell me why the values of log-likelihood, AIC, and AICc are so
large? Thanks a lot.


> ER<-fitDiscrete(tree, aabb, model="ER")

> ARD<-fitDiscrete(tree, aabb, model="ARD")

> ER

GEIGER-fitted comparative model of discrete data

 fitted Q matrix:

                   aa              bb

    aa      -5.915287      5.915287

    bb       5.915287     -5.915287


 model summary:

log-likelihood =
-99999999999999996973312221251036165947450327545502362648241750950346848435554075534196338404706251868027512415973882408182135734368278484639385041047239877871023591066789981811181813306167128854888448.000000

AIC =
199999999999999993946624442502072331894900655091004725296483501900693696871108151068392676809412503736055024831947764816364271468736556969278770082094479755742047182133579963622363626612334257709776896.000000

AICc =
199999999999999993946624442502072331894900655091004725296483501900693696871108151068392676809412503736055024831947764816364271468736556969278770082094479755742047182133579963622363626612334257709776896.000000

free parameters = 1


Convergence diagnostics:

optimization iterations = 100

failed iterations = 0

frequency of best fit = 1.00


 object summary:

'lik' -- likelihood function

'bnd' -- bounds for likelihood search

'res' -- optimization iteration summary

'opt' -- maximum likelihood parameter estimates

> ARD

GEIGER-fitted comparative model of discrete data

 fitted Q matrix:

                        aa                    bb

    aa          -3.629411e-149  3.629411e-149

    bb          3.629411e-149  -3.629411e-149


 model summary:

log-likelihood =
-99999999999999996973312221251036165947450327545502362648241750950346848435554075534196338404706251868027512415973882408182135734368278484639385041047239877871023591066789981811181813306167128854888448.000000

AIC =
199999999999999993946624442502072331894900655091004725296483501900693696871108151068392676809412503736055024831947764816364271468736556969278770082094479755742047182133579963622363626612334257709776896.000000

AICc =
199999999999999993946624442502072331894900655091004725296483501900693696871108151068392676809412503736055024831947764816364271468736556969278770082094479755742047182133579963622363626612334257709776896.000000

free parameters = 2


Convergence diagnostics:

optimization iterations = 100

failed iterations = 0

frequency of best fit = 1.00


 object summary:

'lik' -- likelihood function

'bnd' -- bounds for likelihood search

'res' -- optimization iteration summary

'opt' -- maximum likelihood parameter estimates

> ER$opt$aicc

[1] 2e+200

> ARD$opt$aicc

[1] 2e+200



Sincerely, Lei

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