initDispersionParameter

Initialize the dispersion parameter.

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The Cauchy Process can model pulsed continuous trait evolution
on phylogenies. The likelihood is tractable, and is used for parameter
inference and ancestral trait reconstruction.
See Bastide and Didier (2023) <doi:10.1093/sysbio/syad053>.

Paul Bastide

cauphy

Trait Evolution on Phylogenies Using the Cauchy Process

Gilles Didier

initDispersionParameter function

<dl><dt>trait</dt>
<dd>named vector of traits at the tips.</dd>
<dt>center</dt>
<dd>the center parameter of the distribution</dd>
<dt>method.init.disp</dt>
<dd>the robust estimator method</dd>
<dt>method</dt>
<dd>the method used to fit the process.
One of <code>reml</code> (the default), <code>fixed.root</code> or <code>random.root</code>.
See Details.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Initialization of the dispersion parameter. — initDispersionParameter

<dl>

<dt>trait</dt>
<dd>named vector of traits at the tips.</dd>


<dt>center</dt>
<dd>the center parameter of the distribution</dd>


<dt>method.init.disp</dt>
<dd>the robust estimator method</dd>


<dt>method</dt>
<dd>the method used to fit the process.
One of <code>reml</code> (the default), <code>fixed.root</code> or <code>random.root</code>.
See Details.</dd>

</dl>

initDispersionParameter: Initialization of the dispersion parameter.

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