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

2011-05-20 Thread Joe Felsenstein
t the simulation is doing Brownian Motion on some other scale, such as a log scale? If one does 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...@g

Re: [R-sig-phylo] comparative analysis using multiple regression of contrasts?

2011-05-25 Thread Joe Felsenstein
t noted. Someone please educate me. 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/listinfo/r-sig-phylo

Re: [R-sig-phylo] comparative analysis using multiple regression of contrasts?

2011-05-25 Thread Joe Felsenstein
Not only can't I understand the underlying model here, I can't type correctly either: Julien Claude, not Clause. If it's any excuse, S is next to D on my keyboard. Joe Joe Felsenstein, j...@gs.washington.edu Dept. of Genome Sciences, Univ. of Washington Box 3550

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

2011-07-14 Thread Joe Felsenstein
effort of doing 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 Evol

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

2011-07-24 Thread Joe Felsenstein
Anyone considering this issue should consider these two papers carefully. Of course mixing within- and between-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

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

2011-08-05 Thread Joe Felsenstein
d has these large changes (and that fits with known Mendelian and Darwinian mechanisms). 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 mor

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

2011-08-05 Thread Joe Felsenstein
o do much more complicated models that are impossibly hard (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

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
it evolved at the > same rate of its sister species? Good way 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 m

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Geiger's phy.manova returns same p-value for different data

2011-08-16 Thread Joe Felsenstein
s 999 simulated cases. 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/listinfo/r-sig-phylo

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

2011-09-17 Thread Joe Felsenstein
ry unpleasant surprises. 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-

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

2011-09-21 Thread Joe Felsenstein
ample. Eliminating that character, not telling 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 Was

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

2011-09-22 Thread Joe Felsenstein
nable statistical analysis. 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/listinfo/

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

2011-11-04 Thread Joe Felsenstein
t (as a fan of REML) that for most tests you can do ML for two models and compare the likelihoods, or you can do REML for two models and compare those likelihoods. The results will usually not be very different. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Dept of Genome Sciences

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
ould work as well as ML. If we are trying to test some 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...@

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

2011-11-10 Thread Joe Felsenstein
e is evolving along the phylogeny according to a Browian motion process. This may well not be a reasonable assumption. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, S

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

2011-11-10 Thread Joe Felsenstein
we should be OK to use PIC 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

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

2011-11-14 Thread Joe Felsenstein
there would be no problem. But I do think it is a Big Mistake (and apparently a frequent one), 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 differe

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

2012-05-02 Thread Joe Felsenstein
given the true phylogeny). In that case each column of the data matrix is drawn 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...@

Re: [R-sig-phylo] are partition of a tree statistically independent?

2012-06-08 Thread Joe Felsenstein
used in the statistical field of graphical model, and phylogeny models are graphical models.. 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 [[alternativ

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

2012-06-14 Thread Joe Felsenstein
) and only subtract D, and call the result the FIC, But that works only for nested 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 b

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

2012-06-17 Thread Joe Felsenstein
wrong too? That is what disturbs me and makes me feel there is something I don't understand about the AIC argument. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 U

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

2012-07-24 Thread Joe Felsenstein
ed complaints that one ought not regress 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.

Re: [R-sig-phylo] asymmetric transitions

2012-08-16 Thread Joe Felsenstein
*not* "fairly straightforward 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

Re: [R-sig-phylo] asymmetric transitions

2012-08-18 Thread Joe Felsenstein
formally correct, but it is a case where one is not being very Bayesian. For my money, you are a Bayesian not just 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.washingto

Re: [R-sig-phylo] testing binomial characters

2012-08-29 Thread Joe Felsenstein
characters using the threshold model. American Naturalist 179: 145-156. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Dept of Genome Sciences and Dept of Biology, Univ. of Washington, Box 5065, Seattle Wa 98195-5065 ___ R-sig-phylo mailin

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Comparative analyse and heritability

2012-09-06 Thread Joe Felsenstein
, and not necessarily very quickly. So it seems that an ordinary comparative methods analysis is justified. It is very similar to having a character such as time to escape a predator. The fact that it does not take millions of years to escape one attack is really irrelevant. Joe` Joe Felsenst

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

2012-11-15 Thread Joe Felsenstein
Then run any distance method. 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 (from 1 October 2012 to 10 December 2012 on sabbatical leave at) Department of Statis

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

2012-11-21 Thread Joe Felsenstein
nch lengths on that tree. Daniel has already expressed his legitimate concerns in such a case as to whether it takes (for example) trifurcations as if they were real rather than an expression of our uncertainty. J.F. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sci

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

2012-11-22 Thread Joe Felsenstein
r issue with parsimony 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

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

2013-01-10 Thread Joe Felsenstein
s biology more 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

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

2013-03-15 Thread Joe Felsenstein
considering different transforms of the data (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

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Ancestral state estimates of continuous traits

2013-03-18 Thread Joe Felsenstein
nuous characters. American Journal of Human Genetics 25: 471-492. (which can be accessed at that journal free of charge) ** bragging mode off ** 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] combining p-values in PCMs

2013-04-01 Thread Joe Felsenstein
ick up some data paperwork for him for a joint project the two of you were working on. (Okay, the last part is "Poisson d'Avrile") Joe Felsenstein, j...@gs.washington.edu Dept. of Genome Sciences, Univ. of Washington Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA ___

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

2013-04-06 Thread Joe Felsenstein
Zharkikh had a very good paper in 1994 covering many 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 F

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

2013-04-09 Thread Joe Felsenstein
iterion. In a sense what I am raising 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 [[al

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

2013-04-22 Thread Joe Felsenstein
g and adding to the tree any phenotypes for the most recent common ancestor. Thus 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.washing

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

2013-04-22 Thread Joe Felsenstein
); so now (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.

Re: [R-sig-phylo] phylogenetic multiple correspondence analysis

2013-04-25 Thread Joe Felsenstein
in, J. 2012. A comparative method for both discrete and continuous characters using the threshold model. American Naturalist 179: 145-156 General packages such a MCMCGlimm can (probably) be made to do the equivalent, with some torture. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.e

Re: [R-sig-phylo] dist.dna -- inconsistent behavior with ambiguous sequences

2013-05-02 Thread Joe Felsenstein
hen one species has A and the other has A/G that you just count a match of 1/2, as for a small distance most of the likelihood is contributed by the A possibility. For longer branches the contributions of the two terms are more nearly equal. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washingto

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

2013-07-08 Thread Joe Felsenstein
27;s phytools 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

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

2013-07-11 Thread Joe Felsenstein
of Y may actually be the result of optimum selection which is affected by past values of X which we do not observe directly. I've complained about this here in the past, to no avail, Thomas Hansen, in a recent paper, made the same point, with evidence too. /* crankiness off */ J.F.

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

2013-07-12 Thread Joe Felsenstein
Systematic Biology 61 (3): 413-425. ISSN 1063-5157. 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 li

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

2013-07-30 Thread Joe Felsenstein
ime most traits are at something > close to adaptive equilibrium is generic to evolutionary biology. I guess I'm not an evolutionary biologist then. If an adaptive peak is moving around, I am unwilling to assume that the population always succeeds in staying on top of it. Joe Joe Fel

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

2013-11-28 Thread Joe Felsenstein
e run 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 98195-506

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-ph...@r-project.org/ > >> > >> > &g

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] Midpoint rooting routine?

2014-01-30 Thread Joe Felsenstein
see of course also retree.html. 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-ph

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

2014-01-30 Thread Joe Felsenstein
two levels 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-pro

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Cross-validation with independent contrasts

2014-05-16 Thread Joe Felsenstein
framework. The issue of what entities should be sampled in cross-validation depends on how, at what level, you expect the model to depart from multivariate normality with Brownian Motion. Diego and Ted seem to have some such expectation but I can't see what that alternative m

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

2014-12-15 Thread Joe Felsenstein
the model is wrong so some of the changes attributed to between-species evolution are actually within-species sampling variation (phenotypic variance). Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 3

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

2015-01-23 Thread Joe Felsenstein
ne major phylogeny program has very recently added code 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

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

2015-01-23 Thread Joe Felsenstein
four observations given that the base really is A, and second row is the probabilities given 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

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

2015-03-05 Thread Joe Felsenstein
ou don't want to print the resulting tree on paper, 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

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

2015-03-05 Thread Joe Felsenstein
d line. It is the selection made by typing the character "#". 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]] __

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

2015-03-23 Thread Joe Felsenstein
is just briefly 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

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

2015-04-16 Thread Joe Felsenstein
model implementations do not allow three 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 ___

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

2015-04-24 Thread Joe Felsenstein
hange in log(size) or in sqrt(size) have constant variance? 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 Ge

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

2015-06-07 Thread Joe Felsenstein
s close 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

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

2015-06-08 Thread Joe Felsenstein
alue when its assumptions 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-

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, o

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 Departme

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] Pairwise Distances

2016-02-18 Thread Joe Felsenstein
osest 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

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] 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 of

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

2016-03-18 Thread Joe Felsenstein
d in a multivariate 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, U

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] 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 Departme

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

2016-04-09 Thread Joe Felsenstein
Liam -- Thanks, I had a "senior moment" and have been corrected: Rphylip, not Phytools. 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 [[altern

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

2016-04-14 Thread Joe Felsenstein
ach. > > 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,

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

2016-04-14 Thread Joe Felsenstein
ow 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] 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] statistical tests for phylogenetic independent contrasts

2016-08-03 Thread Joe Felsenstein
about any covariation between traits? Not knowing that is a positive objective of your study? The vectors of the individual standardized contrasts are independent multivariate quantities. The contrasts for different traits covary, but the multivariate vectors are i.i.d. J.F. Joe Felse

[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] HKY GTR distances

2017-02-03 Thread Joe Felsenstein
problem 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 Washi

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

2017-04-07 Thread Joe Felsenstein
distances 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 li

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] tree thievery

2008-11-07 Thread Joe Felsenstein
. Is described as working from image files, and it is available for various operating systems. Does it solve the problem? Joe Joe Felsenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 3550

Re: [R-sig-phylo] circle plot

2008-11-13 Thread Joe Felsenstein
ell me please. This is an illegitimate answer, but ... have APE call PHYLIP's program Drawgram. It can do a Circular tree, and by playing around with the options for use or nonuse of branch lengths, and the placement of ancestral nodes, you can get the circular tournament-format tree.

Re: [R-sig-phylo] GLS slopes for study on allometry

2008-11-25 Thread Joe Felsenstein
x27;s not the traditional analysis for allometry but it ought to become the new tradition. Joe Joe Felsenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA __

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Fwd: Re: PIC in the case of a nonlinear relationship

2008-11-25 Thread Joe Felsenstein
covariances. My 2008 paper in American Naturalist is another paper that is relevant. Joe Joe Felsenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA __

Re: [R-sig-phylo] simple problem?

2008-12-02 Thread Joe Felsenstein
shares a common ancestor with "Athene_noctua" > and parse out the names of the tips in that clade. Is the question > clear? I hope so. Any advice would be much appreciated! It's easy. Don't do anything! Everything in the tree already shares a common ancestor with &

Re: [R-sig-phylo] bootstrapping question

2009-03-06 Thread Joe Felsenstein
s the entire matrix, that might explain why the bootstrap support is so much lower. Those are two interesting bootstrap methods ... but I would say both are completely wrong. Isn't it more correct to bootstrap the original data from which the distances are derived, then compute distances for

Re: [R-sig-phylo] bootstrapping question

2009-03-09 Thread Joe Felsenstein
Emmanuel Paradis wrote --: Joe Felsenstein a écrit : Monica Poelchaum wrote -- The bootstrap values this function returns are MUCH lower than what is returned in another program, "Past". I'm wondering at what level the bootstrap algorithm randomizes the samples, since thi

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Parametric bootstraping

2009-03-16 Thread Joe Felsenstein
presume this alternative is a good approach) Some people 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 shuffl

Re: [R-sig-phylo] size-free morphometrics in phylogenetic framework

2009-04-06 Thread Joe Felsenstein
and what needs to be done when more elaborate analyses than contrasts from species means are to be done. I'll be giving a short (13-15 minute) talk on this at this year's Evolution meetings. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences

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

2009-05-08 Thread Joe Felsenstein
ve natural limits at zero. 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] PPCA

2009-05-31 Thread Joe Felsenstein
covariance matrices. When you have both phylogenetic covariances and within-species phenotypic covariances, these may have different axes, of course. J.F. ---- Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Correcting for body size using PGLS

2009-07-22 Thread Joe Felsenstein
es, but as posters here have pointed out, the between-species ("phylogenetic") covariances can be used to calculate the RMA slope. In the next major release we will explicitly calculate RMA stuff too. Joe Felsenstein joe (at) gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences an

Re: [R-sig-phylo] N00b questions

2009-09-01 Thread Joe Felsenstein
washington.edu/papers/spectrum/ As for integrating this with between-species comparative methods, I am pretty sure that can be done but it will be even messier. For combinations of gene-flow-thinking and tree-thinking see Rasmus Nielsen and Jody Hey's program IMa, which is still in its earl

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

2009-09-26 Thread Joe Felsenstein
f how to classify is less 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/ma

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

2009-09-29 Thread Joe Felsenstein
group of interest. If one simply 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".

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

2009-09-29 Thread Joe Felsenstein
many systematists have been strong -- they are really outraged, and figure that this is just some 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

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

2009-09-29 Thread Joe Felsenstein
shing phylogenetic comparative methods. (It's taking a lot longer to wean physiologists of two-species comparisons, but I have not had to do any of that advocacy -- others have borne the brunt.) J.F. Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Depar

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

2009-11-05 Thread Joe Felsenstein
t it'll 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..

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

2010-08-04 Thread Joe Felsenstein
root of the covariances among 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, B

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

2010-09-27 Thread Joe Felsenstein
provable that this will be identical (getting the same P values and estimates) to a REML ("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

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Phylogeny and morphometric data: a new paradigm?

2010-11-03 Thread Joe Felsenstein
on2009 meeting (for 13 minutes, anyway) and we hope to have more methods available soon. Obviously I prefer statistically-based methods such as likelihood (or Bayesian) ones instead of parsimony, but I won't bore people with that. Joe Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Departmen

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

2010-12-02 Thread Joe Felsenstein
ares fit 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.

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