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phytools (version 1.2-0)

pgls.Ives: Phylogenetic regression with intraspecific sampling error

Description

This function fits the phylogenetic regression model with within-species sampling error following Ives et al. (2007).

pgls.SEy fits a simpler model in which only sampling error in y is taken into account. This function uses gls from the nlme package internally for optimization and returns an object of class "gls" that is compatible with all methods for that object class.

Usage

pgls.Ives(tree, X, y, Vx=NULL, Vy=NULL, Cxy=NULL, lower=c(1e-8,1e-8),
	fixed.b1=NULL)
pgls.SEy(model, data, corClass=corBrownian, tree,
   se=NULL, method=c("REML","ML"), interval=c(0,1000), ...)

Value

In the case of pgls.Ives, an object of class "pgls.Ives" with the following components:

beta

a vector or matrix of regression coefficients.

sig2x

fitted BM rate for X.

sig2y

fitted BM rate for y.

a

fitted ancestral states for X and y.

logL

log-likelihood.

convergence

a value for convergence. convergence=0 is good; see optim for more details.

message

a message for convergence.

In the case of pgls.SEy, an object of class "gls".

Arguments

tree

a phylogeny as an object of class "phylo".

X

a named vector containing a single independent variable (multiple independent variables to be added in future). X can contain the species means, or a single long vector containing the sample of values for each species. In the latter case the names(X) will be repeating - all samples from the same species should have the same name.

y

vector the dependent variable. Can be species means or individual values, as for X.

Vx

sampling variances for X. If NULL, then the within-species variance is computed from the data assuming that individual samples, not species means, have been provided in X.

Vy

sampling variances for y. If NULL, then the within-species variance is computed from the data assuming that individual samples, not species means, have been provided in y.

Cxy

sampling covariances between X and y. This will also be computed from the data if Cxy==NULL. Note than in this case - but not for the calculation of Vx and Vy, the same number of observations and the same ordering must be provided for X and y. If this is not the case, then it is assumed that different individuals have been sampled for X and y and thus Cxy is assumed to be zero for all species.

lower

vector specifying the lower bounds for estimation for \(\sigma_x^2\) and \(\sigma_y^2\), respectively. (Must be > 0.)

fixed.b1

fixed regression slope, \(\beta\). Usually set to zero for null hypothesis testing.

model

model to fit. (For pgls.SEy.)

data

data frame. (For pgls.SEy.)

corClass

correlation structure. (For pgls.SEy.)

se

vector of standard errors in y. (For pgls.SEy.)

method

optimization method. (For pgls.SEy.)

interval

interval over which to perform optimization. (For pgls.SEy.)

...

optional arguments. (For pgls.SEy.)

Author

Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu

Details

In the case of pgls.Ives, only the bivariate regression model is implemented. Note that some problems have been reported with the optimization algorithm for this model, which is simple and thus may fail to find the ML solution.

In the case of pgls.SEy the user can (theoretically) specify any class of linear model permitted by gls.

References

Ives, A. R., P. E. Midford, and T. Garland Jr. (2007) Within-species measurement error in phylogenetic comparative methods. Systematic Biology, 56, 252-270.

Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.

See Also

brownie.lite, phylosig, phyl.resid