Likelihood function for joint estimation of Pagel's \(\lambda\) parameter.
likMlambda(lambda, X, C)The log-likelihood.
scalar, usually on the interval 0,1 (although not required to be).
data for various continuous character, in the form of a matrix.
n x n matrix (for n taxa) containing the height above the root for each pair of taxa in the tree (e.g., vcv.phylo).
Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu
Generally intended to be used internally by other methods that do joint optimization of \(\lambda\) (e.g., phyl.pca).
Revell, L. J. (2024) phytools 2.0: an updated R ecosystem for phylogenetic comparative methods (and other things). PeerJ, 12, e16505.