Dear community,
I would like to share my experience with using some (really cool)
computational tools for phylogenetic signal and morphological integration
analysis.
I am using physignal (geomorph R package) and the Phylo.Morphol.PLS
function provided in the paper by Adams and Felice (2014; PLoS ONE,
9:e94335) in my work. I noticed that if the same analysis is rerun for a
particular number of iterations, the results may vary. Additionally, I
observed that increasing the number of iterations, up to some critical
point, may push down the p-value, depending on data set (didn't happen with
the plethspecies (9 species) data, but happened in my data set - 13
species, not salamanders). I attach runs (10 times) for both data sets for
iterations of 100, 1000, 10000 and 100000 here for Phylo.Morphol.PLS. Note
that some kind of stable results is attained after 1000 iterations
(default) for the plethspecies data, but for my case, which needs 10000.
I think the notion that p-values returned from a permutation method are
actually realizations of random variables with a certain mean and variance
may not be familiar to many biologists, who are accustomed to expect a
reproducible p-value when the same data set is rerun using common
statistical tests. Perhaps in a future version the authors of the code can
implement a checker within the functions that checks the number of
iterations for attaining "convergence", so that a more stable p-value is
returned?
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