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SUBMITTER: Landis MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3566600 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Landis Michael J MJ Schraiber Joshua G JG Liang Mason M
Systematic biology 20121003 2
Gaussian processes, a class of stochastic processes including Brownian motion and the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, are widely used to model continuous trait evolution in statistical phylogenetics. Under such processes, observations at the tips of a phylogenetic tree have a multivariate Gaussian distribution, which may lead to suboptimal model specification under certain evolutionary conditions, as supposed in models of punctuated equilibrium or adaptive radiation. To consider non-normally distrib ...[more]