[R-sig-phylo] Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Workshop 2023

2023-03-06 Thread Joe Felsenstein
will be found at: https://fhl.uw.edu/courses/course-descriptions/course/evolutionary-quantitative-genetics-workshop-2023/ and more information, including details of the Workshop in recent years, will be found at https://eqgw.github.io Joe Felsenstein and Steve Arnold -- Joe Felsenstein

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Workshop 2023

2023-01-27 Thread Joe Felsenstein
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Re: [R-sig-phylo] phylogenetic correlation analysis

2021-06-13 Thread Joe Felsenstein
. Joe -- Joe Felsenstein felse...@gmail.com, j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r

Re: [R-sig-phylo] If my trait X cannot be regressed by body size, how can I rescue residuals corrected by the phylogeny and SE?

2021-05-27 Thread Joe Felsenstein
es > it make sense? > Well, I am afraid I am lost. Perhaps someone else here could explain the issues to me ... Joe -- Joe Felsenstein felse...@gmail.com, j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065,

Re: [R-sig-phylo] If my trait X cannot be regressed by body size, how can I rescue residuals corrected by the phylogeny and SE?

2021-05-27 Thread Joe Felsenstein
it is clear what the intended task is and why that makes sense. Joe -- Joe Felsenstein felse...@gmail.com, j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA [[alternative HTML version

Re: [R-sig-phylo] units of sigsq

2021-03-19 Thread Joe Felsenstein
u compute a linear combination such as 2 log(wt) - 3 log(height). Which princip[al, le] components machinery does. Joe -- Joe Felsenstein felse...@gmail.com, j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle,

Re: [R-sig-phylo] units of sigsq

2021-03-19 Thread Joe Felsenstein
f you had a principal component (usually misnamed a “principle” component) it is in terms of a linear combination of characters, and I am deeply puzzled how to give their units as they mix them. Joe -- Joe Felsenstein felse...@gmail.com, j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome

Re: [R-sig-phylo] units of sigsq

2021-03-19 Thread Joe Felsenstein
. So crop yield has units of meters, and variance of crop yield should have units of square meters. That way lies madness ... Joe - Joe Felsenstein felse...@gmail.com, j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 35506

Re: [R-sig-phylo] collapsing sets of nodes based on label values

2020-06-02 Thread Joe Felsenstein
or PHYLIP within R. J.F. - Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Multivariate ASR with Discrete Characters

2020-03-04 Thread Joe Felsenstein
just using likelihood computations -- I've checked and the sampling does infer the same covariances in that case. In this all-continuous case the same issue of transforming to independent characters also comes up. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Phylogenetic varying slopes and intercepts model

2019-09-10 Thread Joe Felsenstein
Oscar Inostraza -- Is the variable x also evolving on the tree? If so you need to use standard phylogenetically-informed comparative methods to estimate the variances and covariances of changes in both characters. You may not be able to assume that y responds instantly to x. J.F. Joe

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Nantucket Phylogenetics DevelopeR Workshop

2019-08-08 Thread Joe Felsenstein
e most picturesque marine laboratory. Joe ---- Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-p

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Link between Mahalanobis distance and PGLS

2019-01-04 Thread Joe Felsenstein
logenetic PCA ? See above. It does require MCMC, and cannot simply be done with distances. J.F. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Extended Majority Consensus Topology (Allcompat Summary) in R? And some observations on ape's consensus() function

2018-10-27 Thread Joe Felsenstein
ompatible. That will often be the same, but not always. The latter is called the Nelson Consensus Tree. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065,

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Estimating marginal ancestral states under a non-reversible model of evolution.

2018-09-18 Thread Joe Felsenstein
become correspondingly different, and the model is still reversible. The tree can be rerooted at any interior node and the marginal ancestral states at that node found by the usual likelihood "pruning" algorithm. J.F. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sc

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

2018-06-12 Thread Joe Felsenstein
of taking ancestral state inferences as observations. The popular science press in particular demands a fly-on-the-wall account of what happened in evolution, and giving them the ancestral state inferences as if they were known precisely is a mistake. Joe Joe Felsenstein j

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Detection association between traits

2018-03-28 Thread Joe Felsenstein
a,c) r(b,c)] / [(sqrt(1 - r(a,c)^2) sqrt(1 - r(b,c)^2)] For likelihood ratio testing in a linear model, one could compare the likelihoods of models that did or did not have direct connection of a and b. RA Fisher also derived a distribution of the partial correlation coefficient. Joe Joe

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Phylogenetic PCA and measurement error

2018-03-12 Thread Joe Felsenstein
he PCA machinery until after you estimate these two covariance matrices. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___ R

Re: [R-sig-phylo] phylogenetic signal with sample sizes but no standard errors

2017-08-04 Thread Joe Felsenstein
the within-species sampling error. The harder part is using that to correct one's estimate of the covariances of the between-species change, which using ordinary methods will have some within-species variation mixed in. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences

Re: [R-sig-phylo] phylip file compression ratios

2017-04-18 Thread Joe Felsenstein
pressibility should be much lower. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-si

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Average Aminoacid Identity tree with bootstrap support. Is it possible?

2017-04-07 Thread Joe Felsenstein
after the distance matrix is computed. J.F. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig

Re: [R-sig-phylo] HKY GTR distances

2017-02-03 Thread Joe Felsenstein
em that one either estimates those separately for each pair of sequences, or jointly estimates them from the whole dataset, without using a tree in the process. J.F. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington

[R-sig-phylo] Fwd: Workshop: UWashington.EvolQuantGenetics.Jun5-9

2017-01-31 Thread Joe Felsenstein
. Application deadline March 1, 2017. Application forms and details here: http://tinyurl.com/EQG2017 Web page: http://depts.washington.edu/fhl/studentSummer2017.html#SumB-genetics Instructors: Dr. Joe Felsenstein Department of Genome Sciences University of Washington, Seattle j...@gs.washington.edu Dr

Re: [R-sig-phylo] simulating continuous data

2016-05-10 Thread Joe Felsenstein
this with my own C programs, but it can be done in R too. But what does it mean to be "scaled similarly" ? Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-50

Re: [R-sig-phylo] BiSSE/MacroCAIC on Non-Ultrametric Tree with Polytomies?

2016-04-14 Thread Joe Felsenstein
ut how the environments changed along the tree. Not much effect so far so you can expect more shots across the bow. Joe ---- Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA [[alter

Re: [R-sig-phylo] BiSSE/MacroCAIC on Non-Ultrametric Tree with Polytomies?

2016-04-14 Thread Joe Felsenstein
> > 1) Diversitree package BiSSE > 2) Caper package using MacroCAIC > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated- And what do these methods assume about how that "discrete binary predictor" evolves along the tree? Joe - j...@gs.washington.edu Joe Felsenstein, D

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Testing for relationship between one categorical and one continuous variable in a phylogenetic framework.

2016-04-08 Thread Joe Felsenstein
model. American Naturalist 179: 145-156. which is implemented in my program Threshml which can be called from Liam Revell's Phytools R package. It also works for multiple threshold characters and multiple continuous characters. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Determining Order of Trait Evolution

2016-04-04 Thread Joe Felsenstein
continuous and another discrete. It is implemented in my program Threshml, which should be callable from Liam Revell's "phytools" R package. However it does not precisely answer the question you posed, but just asks whether the two traits evolve in a correlated fashion. J.

Re: [R-sig-phylo] [MORPHMET] model II regression statistics PAST

2016-03-18 Thread Joe Felsenstein
tivariate statistics book by Morrison. I am not sure where Paul published this, but I think he did in an appendix to a paper of his in some multiauthor volume. J.F. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University

Re: [R-sig-phylo] summary stats for comparative methods p-values

2016-03-10 Thread Joe Felsenstein
some, but the type I error rate stays the same. If the 100 trees are something else, such as the personal opinions of 100 of your friends, then there is no statistical justification for this. J.F. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Pairwise Distances

2016-02-18 Thread Joe Felsenstein
ive discussions in the book by John Wakeley. Also in the elementary population genetics text by Nielsen and Slatkin. J.F. ---- Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Pairwise Distances

2016-02-18 Thread Joe Felsenstein
way I figured out is the function dist.dna from the ape > package. But I think it does not estimate distances between groups. > You want to use distances between groups? But you don't want to think about coalescents? J.F. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Depar

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Accounting for phylogeny in binary predictor, binary response data

2016-02-10 Thread Joe Felsenstein
I do not know offhand whether there is an R implementation, but how about Mark Pagel's 1994 method for testing whether two 0/1 characters changing along a ohylogeny are changing independently? J.F. - j...@gs.washington.edu Joe Felsenstein, Department of Genome Sciences and Department

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Accounting for phylogeny in binary predictor, binary response data

2016-02-10 Thread Joe Felsenstein
...@gs.washington.edu Joe Felsenstein, Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology Box 355065, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ___ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https

Re: [R-sig-phylo] testing for variation in rates of evolution among traits

2015-07-17 Thread Joe Felsenstein
Warning: You'd have to ensure that the traits for which you are comparing rates are evolving independently, so that they do not covary in their evolutionary changes. I assume Dean Adams's paper involves some way of coping with this. The issue of log-transforms that Ted raised is very important,

Re: [R-sig-phylo] [MORPHMET] Re: Stability of p-values (physignal and testing for morphological integration)

2015-06-08 Thread Joe Felsenstein
are met. J.F. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https

Re: [R-sig-phylo] [MORPHMET] Re: Stability of p-values (physignal and testing for morphological integration)

2015-06-08 Thread Joe Felsenstein
to the true P value, one needs 4 times as many permutations. And this need for more and more samples continues indefinitely. There is no sudden change as one reaches a threshold number of permutations. But that's what you really meant, right? Joe --- Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu

Re: [R-sig-phylo] ancestor vs. change plots

2015-04-24 Thread Joe Felsenstein
? There are parameterized transformation such as y = (x^p - x^{-p})/(2p) or elsey = ( x^p - 1) / p + 1 for which you could estimate the parameter p by ML. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Sister-clade analysis of discrete characters

2015-04-16 Thread Joe Felsenstein
or more states. But the possibilty should be mentioned here. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___ R-sig-phylo

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Sister-clade analysis of discrete characters

2015-03-23 Thread Joe Felsenstein
mentioned by them, I gather because the authors forgot about it until the last minute when writing the review. Nevertheless it is getting increasing use. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box

Re: [R-sig-phylo] multipage pdf of a huge tree

2015-03-05 Thread Joe Felsenstein
, it would then be possible to view the tree in an application such as Adobe Acrobat Reader and zoom in on it and see the tiny branches and their labels. Making multiple plots for one tree would probably confuse the matter. Or is there something I am missing here? J.F. Joe Felsenstein j

Re: [R-sig-phylo] multipage pdf of a huge tree

2015-03-05 Thread Joe Felsenstein
. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ___ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Phylogenetic analysis with sequencing error

2015-01-23 Thread Joe Felsenstein
to model this. We have a version of Dnaml for PHYLIP that can do it, and hope to release it soon. As George Shireff saw, it is actually easy to do, and the computations are not any slower. J.F. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Phylogenetic analysis with sequencing error

2015-01-23 Thread Joe Felsenstein
that it really is G, etc., then the four quantities you want at one site at one tip of the tree are the four numbers in a column. (Which column depends on what you observed). The rows have to add to 1; the columns don't have to. J.F. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome

Re: [R-sig-phylo] hierarchical model with phylogenetic dependence term

2014-12-15 Thread Joe Felsenstein
lengths between closely-related species are an inadequate predictor of how different the species means will be. In effect, the model is wrong so some of the changes attributed to between-species evolution are actually within-species sampling variation (phenotypic variance). Joe Joe

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Midpoint rooting routine?

2014-01-30 Thread Joe Felsenstein
of menus. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Sampling from all bifurcating and multifurcating trees

2013-12-24 Thread Joe Felsenstein
think, for labeled histories. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r

Re: [R-sig-phylo] R help generating a heat map

2013-12-23 Thread Joe Felsenstein
]] ___ 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/ -- Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Transforming data for OU model

2013-11-28 Thread Joe Felsenstein
in Windows using the Command Prompt tool, which you will find in the Accessories menu that is found in the menu opened by the All Programs tab in the Start Menu. Joe Joe Felsenstein, j...@gs.washington.edu Dept. of Genome Sciences, Univ. of Washington Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA

Re: [R-sig-phylo] PGLS vs lm

2013-07-12 Thread Joe Felsenstein
. The paper I saw was this one: Hansen, Thomas F Bartoszek, Krzysztof (2012). Interpreting the evolutionary regression: The interplay between observational and biological errors in phylogenetic comparative studies. Systematic Biology 61 (3): 413-425. ISSN 1063-5157. J.F. Joe Felsenstein

Re: [R-sig-phylo] question about measurement error in phylogenetic signal (Krzysztof Bartoszek)

2013-07-08 Thread Joe Felsenstein
package can call our program. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r

Re: [R-sig-phylo] question about analysing trait differences

2013-04-22 Thread Joe Felsenstein
if we find (chimp, bonobo) to be the cherry we remove them, leaving a tree such as (macacque, (gibbon, (orang, gorilla))); so now (orang, gorilla) is a cherry. Joe Joe Felsenstein, j...@gs.washington.edu Dept. of Genome Sciences, Univ. of Washington Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA

Re: [R-sig-phylo] question about analysing trait differences

2013-04-22 Thread Joe Felsenstein
(gorilla, human) is a cherry. Joe Joe Felsenstein, j...@gs.washington.edu Dept. of Genome Sciences, Univ. of Washington Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman

Re: [R-sig-phylo] statistically test whether two characters evolve dependently

2013-04-09 Thread Joe Felsenstein
is the likelihood and modeling equivalent problem.) Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA [[alternative HTML version deleted

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Seeking list of nucleotide substitution models

2013-04-06 Thread Joe Felsenstein
of the distances that had been invented up to that date, and explaining relationships between them: Zharkikh, A. 1994. Estimation of evolutionary distances between nucleotide sequences. Journal of Molecular Evolution 39: 315.329 Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome

Re: [R-sig-phylo] testing for correlates of rates of evolution

2013-03-15 Thread Joe Felsenstein
(there are parameterized families of them) and use the likelihood to test values of the transform parameters (with appropriate correction of the likelihood by having a Jacobian term). Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University

Re: [R-sig-phylo] From ClustalW2 Tree to Heat Map in R

2013-01-10 Thread Joe Felsenstein
interesting but makes molecular change less clocklike. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA [[alternative HTML version deleted

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Why no branch lengths on consensus trees?

2012-11-22 Thread Joe Felsenstein
methods -- the set of most parsimonious trees may have a consensus, which may well not be a most parsimonious tree. People who see the consensus of most parsimonious trees may not realize that the particular tree they are looking at is not most parsimonious. J.F. Joe Felsenstein j

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Cluster tips into OTUs

2012-11-15 Thread Joe Felsenstein
. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA (from 1 October 2012 to 10 December 2012 on sabbatical leave at) Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

Re: [R-sig-phylo] asymmetric transitions

2012-08-18 Thread Joe Felsenstein
if you use a prior, but if you are willing to use a controversial prior. And in this case the prior is pretty uncontroversial. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065

Re: [R-sig-phylo] asymmetric transitions

2012-08-16 Thread Joe Felsenstein
to prove. In which case it is not necessary to bring speciation rates or priors into it. A reversible two-state model should be able to have its parameters estimated on a given tree, clocklike or not. Joe Joe Felsenstein, j...@gs.washington.edu Dept. of Genome Sciences, Univ

Re: [R-sig-phylo] simulate traits evolution in correlated with body mass

2012-07-24 Thread Joe Felsenstein
present-day y's on present-day x's. Lots of people are doing it -- and they're all wrong. *** whining off *** Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Dept of Genome Sciences and Dept of Biology, Univ. of Washington, Box 5065, Seattle Wa 98195-5065

Re: [R-sig-phylo] LL ratio test

2012-06-17 Thread Joe Felsenstein
).Or have I missed something here? So the expectation of the difference is log likelihood *is* described by the AIC, right? And isn't it (in view of Fisher's distribution) wrong too? That is what disturbs me and makes me feel there is something I don't understand about the AIC argument. Joe Joe

Re: [R-sig-phylo] LL ratio test

2012-06-14 Thread Joe Felsenstein
hypotheses, and the main point of the AIC is to deal with non-nested hypotheses. To make matters worse, in my field the AIC has the reputation of too easily favoring the most complex hypothesis, so maybe we should be subtracting more than 2D, not less. Clueless in Seattle. Joe Joe Felsenstein

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Using AIC/AICc/BIC to select trait a model of trait evolution

2012-05-02 Thread Joe Felsenstein
i.i.d. from a distribution. Of course, even correlations of rates of evolution among neighboring sites violates this. Whether and how number of species comes in is trickier. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Dept of Genome Sciences and Dept of Biology, Univ. of Washington

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Comparative Methods and Pseudo-Traits

2011-11-14 Thread Joe Felsenstein
), when people measure the residual of a character regressed on environmental variables, then casually assume that it is undergoing Brownian Motion, when the environmental variables may have been different in the past. That's probably not an issue here. Joe Joe Felsenstein j

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Comparative Methods and Pseudo-Traits

2011-11-10 Thread Joe Felsenstein
regression. I worry. Why are we to assume that current phenotypes are distributed around optima that are based on *current* environmental variables? Joe --- Joe Felsenstein, j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology University of Washington Box 355065 Seattle

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Is correlation of PICs, with tip data and each terminal node split into male and female, a valid method?

2011-11-05 Thread Joe Felsenstein
hypothesis about the value of the grand mean, of course REML is inappropriate. An example would be simple one-way ANOVA which is actually a REML analysis, and it does test means of the groups. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Show Informative Sites?

2011-09-21 Thread Joe Felsenstein
the statistical method you did that, and then going ahead with the analysis is a Big Mistake. J.F. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Show Informative Sites?

2011-09-17 Thread Joe Felsenstein
. J.F. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ___ R-sig-phylo mailing

Re: [R-sig-phylo] R: Re: R: ancestral state reconstruction for tips

2011-08-05 Thread Joe Felsenstein
). Just complaining that the Brownian stochastic process is no good is insufficient. If we want to add the fossils to the calculation, then they will of course pressure the Brownian Motion process to change more in their vicinity, which may help some. Joe Joe Felsenstein j

Re: [R-sig-phylo] R: Re: R: ancestral state reconstruction for tips

2011-08-05 Thread Joe Felsenstein
(and they are not aware how hard they are). Just understand, when you raise legitimate concerns, that us model-analyzers are also used to getting a lot of these unreasonable demands too, and may be grumpy as a result. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Dept of Genome Sciences and Dept

Re: [R-sig-phylo] R: Re: R: Re: R: ancestral state reconstruction for tips

2011-08-05 Thread Joe Felsenstein
phenotypes in the fossils that seem incompatible with the Brownian Motion assumption? Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Dept of Genome Sciences and Dept of Biology, Univ. of Washington, Box 5065, Seattle Wa 98195-5065 [[alternative HTML version deleted

Re: [R-sig-phylo] R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: R: ancestral state reconstruction for tips

2011-08-05 Thread Joe Felsenstein
to approach it. If you can calculate the likelihood of trees, one way would be to not bother fitting any ancestral values: just try different lengths for the branch that connects the fossil to the tree, and see which one maximizes the likelihood. Joe Joe Felsenstein j

Re: [R-sig-phylo] comparative methods at subspecies level

2011-07-24 Thread Joe Felsenstein
-species analyses is more difficult yet. I hope to release an R package later this year to do the one-character analysis (it is not too hard to put one together yourself in the meantime). Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department

Re: [R-sig-phylo] pic() vs gls()

2011-07-14 Thread Joe Felsenstein
this for all interior nodes will be no worse than about twice that of a single pass through the tree. However people may prefer to use PGLS, which if properly done should give the proper estimates for all nodes. There is some discussion of this in Rohlf's 2001 paper in Evolution. Joe Joe

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Simulating BM data on phylogeny

2011-05-20 Thread Joe Felsenstein
BM on the logs and then looks at the original phenotype scale, you *would* expect that as the variance among species increases, so does the mean of the species means. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Dept of Genome Sciences and Dept of Biology, Univ. of Washington, Box 5065

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Bootstrap values and NJ when there is no genetic distance between samples

2011-05-09 Thread Joe Felsenstein
method ought to be able to handle identical sequences. 2. A high bootstrap support (or another form of support) associated with a zero-length branch is an indication that something's wrong there. Again, it can be a problem even when the branch lengths are nonzero. Joe Joe Felsenstein, j

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Felsentsein's contrast LRT

2011-04-26 Thread Joe Felsenstein
. J.F. Joe Felsenstein, j...@gs.washington.edu Dept. of Genome Sciences, Univ. of Washington Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___ R-sig-phylo mailing list R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo

Re: [R-sig-phylo] phylogenetically-informed Reduced Major Axis regression in R?

2011-04-20 Thread Joe Felsenstein
that it was already estimating. Joe Joe Felsenstein, j...@gs.washington.edu Dept. of Genome Sciences, Univ. of Washington Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___ R-sig-phylo mailing list R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Simulate node ages given known topology

2011-04-12 Thread Joe Felsenstein
that (determined by the BD process), then that is even easier using the time- transformation trick. I do not know the R packages well enough to know whether one of them implements this, but I am sure someone will comment on that. Joe Joe Felsenstein, j...@gs.washington.edu Dept. of Genome Sciences

[R-sig-phylo] Fwd: Simulate node ages given known topology

2011-04-12 Thread Joe Felsenstein
book) is that it gives you a direct idea of how many groups born at each time are missing from the tree owing to having gone extinct before reaching the present day. J.F. Joe Felsenstein, j...@gs.washington.edu Dept. of Genome Sciences, Univ. of Washington Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Multistate Trait Polymorphism

2011-04-07 Thread Joe Felsenstein
method called polymorphism parsimony but it makes specific assumptions -- namely that polymorphism is hard to retain along a lineage, easy to lose but hard to regain. So do you want assume that, or what? Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Branch and Bound Maximum Parsimony (Matthew Vavrek)

2011-03-28 Thread Joe Felsenstein
it will return all the binary trees compatible with that. It is also much slower than PAUP*. It would get you a file of Newick trees. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA

Re: [R-sig-phylo] How to detect phylogenetic signal (lambda) in one unscaled trait?

2011-03-22 Thread Joe Felsenstein
). It is only the more recent researchers who don't know it. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___ R-sig-phylo mailing

Re: [R-sig-phylo] bootstrapping with boot.phylo()

2011-03-15 Thread Joe Felsenstein
from finite distance matrices or set infinite values to a large value. But one should return a warning as these samples are likely to be biased. Exactly. J.F. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Model-Selection vs. Finding Models that Fit Well

2011-01-31 Thread Joe Felsenstein
often it may go very small but not zero. In either case, it seems to me you can do a LRT versus a star with one d.f. Can you? Is the value of zero contained within the range of possible values, or at its extreme? I think for LRT you need contained within. Joe Joe Felsenstein j

Re: [R-sig-phylo] trees to matrix and gamma-statistic

2010-12-02 Thread Joe Felsenstein
of the distances. Joe --- Joe Felsenstein, j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology University of Washington Box 355065 Seattle WA 98195-5065 ___ R-sig-phylo mailing list R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman

Re: [R-sig-phylo] trees to matrix and gamma-statistic

2010-12-02 Thread Joe Felsenstein
don't have a non-arbitrary way to do that. Joe Joe Felsenstein, j...@gs.washington.edu Dept. of Genome Sciences, Univ. of Washington Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___ R-sig-phylo mailing list R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch

Re: [R-sig-phylo] trees to matrix and gamma-statistic

2010-12-02 Thread Joe Felsenstein
. Wartren Wagner mentions patristic distance in a 1968 review in Bioscience, but does not claim it. 4. JS Farris's paper showing that the cophenetic correlation is minimized when we achieve a least squares fit of tree to distances is in 1969 in Systematic Zoology. Joe Joe Felsenstein, j

Re: [R-sig-phylo] PIC vs. PGLS

2010-09-27 Thread Joe Felsenstein
(reduced or restricted maximum likelihood) on the full covarying Brownian motion model. If PGLS gets identical results to that, then that proves the identity to contrasts analysis. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology

Re: [R-sig-phylo] retrieving simulated ancestral states from sim.char{geiger}

2010-08-04 Thread Joe Felsenstein
characters, and multiply the values at each node by that.) This way you don't need a nodes x nodes covariance matrix. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Simulate continuous character evolution on phylogenetic trees using different models of evolution

2009-11-05 Thread Joe Felsenstein
be straightforward to simulate (continous) traits under the available models of evolution. Keep in mind that one can't always assume that the variances (say of Brownian motion) are equal in all characters, so the correlations aren't quite enough. Joe Joe Felsenstein, j...@gs.washington.edu Dept

Re: [R-sig-phylo] is maximum likeyhood a phylogenetic approach?

2009-09-29 Thread Joe Felsenstein
measures the same character in different species, is that not good enough? My curiousity is because I suspect that if Stephane had coded his characters 0/1 before trying to analyze them, they would then be accepted as made of homology hypotheses. J.F. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu

Re: [R-sig-phylo] is maximum likeyhood a phylogenetic approach?

2009-09-29 Thread Joe Felsenstein
arbitrary opinion of mine, which they are (barely) willing to tolerate. I suppose the matter will become one of open discussion some day. Anyway, back to R. J.F. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box

Re: [R-sig-phylo] is maximum likeyhood a phylogenetic approach?

2009-09-26 Thread Joe Felsenstein
important anyway. J.F. Joe Felsenstein, j...@gs.washington.edu Dept. of Genome Sciences, Univ. of Washington Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___ R-sig-phylo mailing list R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig

Re: [R-sig-phylo] PICs: Why force linear regressions through the origin?

2009-05-08 Thread Joe Felsenstein
. Then the regression might just be a simple linear one. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___ R-sig-phylo mailing

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Parametric bootstraping

2009-03-16 Thread Joe Felsenstein
answered questioning this as a good resampling procedure. Just to be the Voice Of Orthodoxy, let me add ... Whatever its merits, it isn't the same as parametric bootstrapping. That involves simulating data along a tree, not shuffling data among leaves. J.F. Joe Felsenstein j