laser-package {laser}R Documentation

Likelihood Analysis of Speciation/Extinction Rates from Phylogenies

Description

laser implements maximum likelihood methods based on the birth-death process to test whether diversification rates have changed over time. The package permits batch processing of phylogenies to generate null distributions of test statistics and posterior distributions of parameter estimates. Additional functions for manipulating branching times from molecular phylogenies and for simulating branching times are provided.

Author(s)

Dan Rabosky DLR32@cornell.edu

References

Rabosky, D. L. 2006. Likelihood methods for inferring temporal shifts in diversification rates.


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