Hi Karla,
You may consider using the methods we developed in this paper:
Paradis E., Tedesco P. A. & Hugueny B. 2013. Quantifying variation in
speciation and extinction rates with clade data. Evolution 67: 3617–3627.
The associated R code is available on-line as SI of the paper.
Best,
Emman
Dear R-sig-phyloers,
I have a backbone phylogeny (~200 terminals) and diversity data (~2
species) and a multistate character scored for each tip (including a few
polymorphisms). I'd like to estimate both possible effects of different
states of this character on lineage diversification and the
