Yes, I believe these are the ones (attached). It's really weird. Even when
I use a normal GLS the p-value between phylogenetic and non-phylogenetic
least-squares doesn't differ much.
Thanks for answering.

Best regards,
Sérgio.

2015-05-08 16:36 GMT+01:00 Theodore Garland Jr <[email protected]>:

> Do you have a plot of the likelihoods versus the parameter value?
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> Subject: [R-sig-phylo] Weird estimated Lambda values (PGLS)
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> Dear all,
>
> I performed a PGLS with a tree with divergence times as branch lengths. I
> used 1 dependent and 1 independent variable. When I estimate the Lambda (in
> Pagel's method) I get the Maximum Likelihood Lambda ~0 and the Restricted
> Maximum Likelihood Lambda 0.878054. This is really strange. I was thinking
> I might have a tree with incorrect branchlengths but I checked the plot of
> absolute value of contrast vs. standard deviation for both variables and
> it's ok (according to Garland et al., 1992). With OU transformation I don't
> have the same problem. However, the p-value of phylogenetic (both with OU
> or with Brownian Motion PGLS) aren't very different from the ordinary
> least-squares. Is there any other ordinary procedure/analysis I should make
> other than the plots I checked to check my tree? (I understand that there
> is a chance that the characters I am using have influence and maybe the
> tree doesn't make any difference).
>
> Best regards,
> Sérgio.
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Geociências - Universidade de Évora

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