Hello William, You can use the threshBayes function in the package phytools to implement Felsensteins threshold model. One can combine continuous and discrete traits in the same analysis.
Cheers, Don Miles On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 11:50 AM Julien Clavel <julien.cla...@hotmail.fr> wrote: > Hi William, > > If you want to perform a joint reconstruction of the ancestral states for > both continuous and discrete traits (e.g. to look at the evolutionary > correlations) I think that you should have a look at the threshold model of > Felsenstein (a bivariate version is available in phytools; I also remember > an Evolution meeting where E. Goolsby was working on an efficient > implementation of the model). The model assumes that discrete traits are > governed by a latent process which is continuous which makes possible to > fit a multivariate model with other continuous traits (although maybe with > a reduced power). > > All the best, > > Julien > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > [[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/
