Re: [R-sig-phylo] Ancestral state reconstruction, polytomies and the absence of branch lengths

2021-09-15 Thread Jacob Berv
Hi Diego, If your tree has polytomies and the branches have no length information, I am not sure if likelihood model-based reconstruction is right. The ace function (and all other similar functions based on likelihood) will assume that your branch lengths represent some kind biological

[R-sig-phylo] Ancestral state reconstruction, polytomies and the absence of branch lengths

2021-09-15 Thread Diego Almeida-Silva
Dear colleagues, I am trying to estimate ancestral states for two binary characters in a full morphology-based phylogenetic tree. I am using ace function, type="discrete" and kappa=0 as arguments. Unfortunately, I am dealing with two problems about this issue: my topology have three polytomies