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 July 21
• Final deadline July 18
• 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? See Week 6 materials.
• 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