Diversification Rate Estimation and Fast Simulation of Reconstructed Phylogenetic Trees under Tree-Wide Time-Heterogeneous Birth-Death Processes Including Mass-Extinction Events

Simulation of reconstructed phylogenetic trees under tree-wide time-heterogeneous birth-death processes and estimation of diversification parameters under the same model. Speciation and extinction rates can be any function of time and mass-extinction events at specific times can be provided. Trees can be simulated either conditioned on the number of species, the time of the process, or both. Additionally, the likelihood equations are implemented for convenience and can be used for Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimation and Bayesian inference.


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install.packages("TESS")

2.1.2 by Sebastian Hoehna, 4 years ago


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/TESS


Authors: Sebastian Hoehna and Michael R. May


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL-3 license


Imports Rcpp, methods

Depends on ape, coda, deSolve

Linking to Rcpp


Suggested by nLTT.


See at CRAN