User:Carl Boettiger/Notebook/Comparative Phylogenetics/2010/02/18

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Power in Trees
Following up after | yesterday's meeting, I am working on implementing the confidence interval analysis and quantifying information in trees. This second point I will develop by comparing the Felsenstein example tree (information-rich) to the star tree (uninformative), and develop this discussion in the context of assessing the importance of phylogenetic corrections and phylogenetic intertia (my original theme again: noise or data??).

Primate Brain Morphometry
Daniel Mietchen contacted me through openwetware 11 days ago with interest in applying phylogenetic comparative methods to Primate Brain Morphometry data. The initial [[Media:Primate_brain_comparisons.xls | data spreadsheet]] includes 2 continuous traits for 61 Primate species. To get rolling on this in the comparative methods framework, I'll first need to create or find a decent ultrametric tree and then will be up and running. This should both help Dan and be a good experimental dataset for me, which I'll be exploring more during my time at the Bodega Phylogenetics Workshop March 6-13.


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