Guillaume Louvel asked:
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> So my first question is: can we directly apply the Mahalanobis distance
> to measure a kind of "phylogeny-corrected" distance between 2 vectors of
> trait values for a list of species? Since we assume a brownian motion,
> we know these vectors should be drawn from a
Dear all,
I read somewhere (but can't find the source again) that finding the
least squares of a response variable Y against a linear combination of
explanatory variables X given a covariance matrix V (that is, doing a
Phylogenetic Generalized Least Squares) is equivalent to minimizing the
