Dear Florian, What do you mean, exactly? Do you mean the K statistics is, say, about 0.5, and that the randomizaton test for phylogenetic signal (Blomberg et al. 2003), which is based on the MSE not K, is significant, indicating that you do have some degree of signal (more than zero)?
Cheers, Ted Theodore Garland, Jr., Distinguished Professor Department of Biology University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA 92521 Office Phone: (951) 827-3524 Facsimile: (951) 827-4286 (not confidential) Email: tgarl...@ucr.edu http://www.biology.ucr.edu/people/faculty/Garland.html http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=iSSbrhwAAAAJ Director, UCR Institute for the Development of <http://idea.ucr.edu/>Educational Applications <http://idea.ucr.edu/> Editor in Chief, *Physiological and Biochemical Zoology <http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/journals/journal/pbz.html>* Fail Lab: Episode One http://testtube.com/faillab/zoochosis-episode-one-evolution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0msBWyTzU0 On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Menzel, Dr. Florian <menz...@uni-mainz.de> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am analysing phylogenetic signal using Blomberg's K. For several of my > traits (univariate, continuous), the signal strongly deviates both from > random and from the Brownian Motion. > > > I am unsure how to interpret this. Can you give me some advice what this > could mean? > > > Thanks a lot! > > > Florian > > > Dr. Florian Menzel > Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Zoology > University of Mainz > Johannes-von-Müller-Weg 6 > 55128 Mainz, Germany > phone: 0049-6131-3927848 > http://www.bio.uni-mainz.de/zoo/evobio/73_ENG_HTML.php > > Gemeinsam einen Unterschied machen! > www.synagieren.de<http://www.synagieren.de> > > 'For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and > wrong.' (Henry Louis Mencken) > > [[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-ph...@r-project.org/ > [[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/
