Re: [R-sig-phylo] Possible problem with Scaled likelihoods in ancestral state estimation

2023-07-28 Thread Liam J. Revell
Dear Laura. The marginal ancestral states that you obtained under the "ER" model are consistent with a very high backward/forward rate of transitions between the two states. If the best-fitting model implies a very high transitions rate between the two states, then we can say almost nothing

[R-sig-phylo] Possible problem with Scaled likelihoods in ancestral state estimation

2023-07-28 Thread Laura Schaedler
Hello all, I am doing ancestral state estimation analyses with binary traits (presence or absence of a behavior), and while doing so I ran into something that is puzzling me. For one particular behavior, the results look wrong to me, although R doesn't report any errors during the analyses.