Carl Boettiger

Reviewed last night’s sim­u­la­tions, see yesterday’s post. Sim­u­lated data test­ing: Fit­ting the gen­eral model well on the par­rot­fish tree even with clear sim­u­lated data seems hard.  Sim­u­lat­ing with alpha(intramandibulars) = .01, and oth­ers = 20, and fit­ting gen­eral model and the alpha-only inde­pen­dent model (release of con­straint model).  The release model MLE recov­ers rea­son­able val­ues: …