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PhylogeneticEM (version 1.2.1)

impute.data.Rphylopars: Initial imputation of missing data for lasso

Description

impute.data.Rphylopars uses function phylopars from package Rphylopars to impute missing data.

Usage

impute.data.Rphylopars(phylo, Y_data, process, random.init)

Arguments

phylo

a phylogenetic tree, class phylo.

Y_data

data at the tips.

process

the stochastic process

random.init

whether root is random or fixed.

Value

Y_data_imp the imputed data using Rphylopars

Details

This function assume that there are no shifts on the tree. It is only a first approximation for initialization purposes.