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Model Adequacy and the Macroevolution of Angiosperm Functional Traits.
The American naturalist - 1 Aug 2015
Pennell Matthew W, FitzJohn Richard G, Cornwell William K, Harmon Luke J
Abstract excerpt
Making meaningful inferences from phylogenetic comparative data requires a meaningful model of trait evolution. It is thus important to determine whether the model is appropriate for the data and the question being addressed. One way to assess this is to ask whether the model provides a good statistical explanation for the variation in the data. To date, researchers have focused primarily on the explanatory power...
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