This function computes the relative frequencies of character state changes along edges from a sample of stochastically mapped character histories. This function assumes that all trees in the sample differ only in their mapped histories & not at all in topology or branch lengths. Note that it only asks whether the starting and ending states of the edge differ in a particular way, and thus ignores multiple-hits along a single edge.
edgeProbs(trees)
an object of class "multiSimmap"
containing a sample of trees that are identical in topology & branch lengths with different stochastically mapped character histories.
The object that is returned is a matrix with the state changes & the relative frequency of each state change. Rows are in the order of the matrix edge
for any of the mapped trees.
Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.