Fernando Fernandez wrote: > first time I really have a question I can't solve.... > Departing from the hypothesis that if anything is doable it can be > done with R.... > > How can I do Parametric bootstrapping on a tree? > > That is I want to assume a phylogenetic tree as a good model, > and then then shuffle leaves (with haplotypes of a different gene for example) > to compare the randomised distribution to the a priori tree. > > (I cannot compare topographies of two trees because I have no good > support for one of them, > and I still 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 shuffling data among leaves. 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-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo
