A comparative method for both discrete and continuous characters using the threshold model

American Naturalist

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 145-156

  Felsenstein, Joseph ^a   Ackerly, David D ^b   Mcpeek, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Comparative method; Continuous characters; Discrete characters; MCMC; Phylogeny; Threshold model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRECISION; SAMPLING; THRESHOLD;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; EVOLUTION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLASSIFICATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84855405271     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/663681     Document Type: Article

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