Assessment
- Written report
- 5 pages max, inc. references and figures
- Focus mainly on the methods and results
- Brief intro & discussion (paragraph each)
- Final deadline 31.07.25
- 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?
Use of AI tools
The use of AI tools, including ChatGTP and Claude, is permitted (but not limited to) the following tasks: generating code, editing text, background research, clarifying concepts. The only thing I ask is that you provide a statement clarifying how you used it at the end of your report - this will not influence your grade. Writing your entire report or generating data using AI is not permitted.
Data sources
- Graeme Lloyd’s database of character matrices
- Age info for many of these matrices can be found in this paper
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
