Assessment
- Written report
- 5 pages max, inc. references and figures
- Focus mainly on the methods and results
- Brief intro & discussion (paragraph each)
- Deadline for feedback tbd
- Final deadline tbd
- Don’t forget to provide access to the project code!
Some guiding questions for your report
- What is the main question / hypothesis that you aim to address in your project?
- Describe the data, your model, and all your parameter choices
- Could someone else repeat your analysis based on the info you provide?
- If applicable, how did you assess MCMC convergence?
- Did you encounter any issues?
- How do your results differ to previously published results?
Data sources
- Graeme Lloyd’s database of character matrices
- Age info for many of these matrices can be found in this paper
- Statistical evaluation of character support reveals the instability of higher‐level dinosaur phylogeny
Some notes on nexus files
- Brackets
(01)would mean a given taxon has been observed with both states 0 and 1{01}would mean a given taxon has been observed with state 0 or 1- I think RevBayes will ignore any characters in brackets…
- For more information follow this link
