[R-sig-phylo] Comparing DIC of phylogenetic and non-phylogenetic GLMM run with MCMC (MCMCglmm)

2018-06-20 Thread Liam Kendall
Dear all, I am conducting an analysis predicting insect body sizes using a co-varying trait and their biogeographic region within two model formulations using MCMCglmm. The first model has the structure: log(Weight) ~ log(Trait)+ Biogeography + Family (i.e. Taxonomic family of species) The s

Re: [R-sig-phylo] estimate ancestral state with OUwie models

2018-06-20 Thread David Bapst
That sounds pretty different from doing ancestral reconstruction with some fossil data, and hoping the resulting node estimates will reflect reality, because fossil data is now involved. Look, I think every method has its uses; I'm just railing against the idea that the concerns of any particular m