Dear colleagues,

Thank you very much for your suggestions.

Best,

Danny


2013/4/25 Joe Felsenstein <[email protected]>

>
> Danny Rojas wrote:
>
> > Anybody know if there is an alternative to the phylogenetic principal
> > component analysis of Revell (2009; Evolution 63-12: 3258–3268), 
> > let's
> say
> > a phylogenetic multiple correspondence analysis, to analyze
> non-continuous
> > variables? I would appreciate any suggestion.
>
> Use my program Threshml (sorry, it's not written in R) which models 0/1
> variables using Sewall Wright's (1934) "threshold model", and can infer
> principal
> components of the underlying continuous variables. It can also mix
> continuous and 0/1 variables.
>
> Felsenstein, J. 2012. A comparative method for both discrete and continuous
> characters using the threshold model. American Naturalist 179: 145-156
>
> General packages such a MCMCGlimm can (probably) be made to do
> the equivalent, with some torture.
>
> Joe
> ----
> Joe Felsenstein         [email protected]
>  Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology,
>  University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA
>
>
>
>


-- 
Danny Rojas, Ph.D.
Facultade de Bioloxía
Universidade de Vigo
http://rojasdanny.wordpress.com

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