Carl Boettiger

Catch­ing up on unfin­ished work: today has been spent mostly work­ing over my lit­tle tree­base appli­ca­tions note. I’m still decid­ing what/how to present in terms of the meta-analysis sec­tion — look­ing at the clas­sic trends on diver­si­fi­ca­tion rate sta­tis­tics: \(\gamma\) sta­tis­tic and diver­si­fi­ca­tion rate, and depen­dence on num­ber of taxa. Not sure how best to …

  kt and open seem the best focal traits. Unclear what good null traits to use would be. Unclear if any­thing is gained by indep thetas in this exam­ple. Per­for­mance of alpha v theta? Edited plot­ting of like­li­hood com­par­isons, just grouped by trait to get com­mon axis. (Dif­fi­cult to get intel­li­gent zoom­ing on facet_grid to ignore the …

Back from Oz. Evo­lu­tion sub­mis­sion: Latex to word Final sub­mis­sion needs editable copy.  No great solu­tions for latex to word, despite quite a few options: tex2rtf is a fast solu­tion to get some­thing, but not suc­cess­ful on images or equa­tions.  Ended up going with this after all. pan­doc is a generic con­verter to many types, but has only …

Intra­mandibu­lar like­li­hood com­par­isons Para­me­ter zooms: Pha­ryn­geal like­li­hood com­par­isons Both shifts:  

      (uncer­tainty esti­ma­tion to follow).    

Con­sider two sim­u­lated datasets, one under a release of con­straint (left) one under an increase in sigma (right).  Can we cor­rectly dis­crim­i­nate between these mod­els? Para­me­ter dif­fer­ences: Like­li­hood dif­fer­ences: Yup. Repeated with effect-size scaled to be roughly equiv­a­lent for both traits.  Won­der­ing if it’s eas­ier to plot para­me­ters out sep­a­rately like this.  Error bars show …