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phytools (version 1.5-1)

bd: Convert object of class "birthdeath" to raw birth & death rates

Description

Converts an object of class "birthdeath" (from birthdeath) to a vector with the ML birth & death rates.

Usage

bd(x)

Value

A vector.

Arguments

x

object of class "birthdeath".

Author

Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu

Details

This is now somewhat obsolete as phytools now contains functions to fit birth-death and pure-birth diversification models from trees (fit.bd and fit.yule) that also take into account incomplete sampling fraction.

References

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

See Also

birthdeath, fit.bd, fit.yule