Emmanuel Paradis wrote: > The new default for ace will be to use REML for continuous > characters and ML for discrete ones.
after Ted Garland wrote: >> Yes, we have always used REML for this! (Emmanuel wrote: ) >>> You can also try method="REML" which gives much better >>> estimates of sigma^2 than ML. I think I'll make it the >>> default for continuous characters. ** bragging mode on ** Glad to see you have all caught up to this paper: Felsenstein, J. 1973. Maximum likelihood estimation of evolutionary trees from continuous characters. American Journal of Human Genetics 25: 471-492. (which can be accessed at that journal free of charge) ** bragging mode off ** Joe ---- Joe Felsenstein, [email protected] Dept. of Genome Sciences, Univ. of Washington Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list - [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
