Hi Karla, you're almost right, but since sigsq is the variance of the random walk per unit time its unit is actually [unit of the trait]^2/[unit of time]
Cheers, Florian Le ven. 19 mars 2021 à 19:12, Karla Shikev <karlashi...@gmail.com> a écrit : > Dear all, > > Please indulge me in a simple (newbie) question. > > If I have a continuous trait (log(body size in g)) and a calibrated tree > and use fitContinuous to estimate sigsq using a BM model, what is the unit > of the siqsq estimate? log(g)/My? > > Thanks for your patience, > > Karla > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo > Searchable archive at > http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/ > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/
