Updated workshop description for the IBS Bayreuth Conference: Free your mind: Model comparison and model testing in historical biogeography with the R package BioGeoBEARS Historical biogeography methods have long been dominated by the dispersal versus vicariance debate, and different computer programs have made different assumptions about the importance of these processes. The R package BioGeoBEARS allows users to build models that give different probability to vicariance, dispersal, and other processes, as well as build more complex models (dispersal probability as a function of distance, island emergence and submergence), and all of the models are directly comparable in the common framework of statistical model choice. Attendees of this workshop will learn how to build and test models in BioGeoBEARS, as well as necessary basic skills in R and statistical model choice. Previous experience with R is helpful, but NOT required. Attendees may wish to bring their own phylogenies and geography data and run it at the end of the workshop. Contact instructor Nick Matzke ([email protected]) for more information BioGeoBEARS: phylo.wikidot/biogeobears cran.r-project.org/web/packages/BioGeoBEARS/index.html Papers about BioGeoBEARS: Matzke, Nicholas J. (2014). Model Selection in Historical Biogeography Reveals that Founder-event Speciation is a Crucial Process in Island Clades. Systematic Biology. Early View: sysbio.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/08/14/sysbio.syu056.abstract Matzke, Nicholas J. (2013). Thesis abstract: Probabilistic historical biogeography: new models for founder-event speciation, imperfect detection, and fossils allow improved accuracy and model-testing. Frontiers of Biogeography, 5(4), 242-248. escholarship.org/uc/item/44j7n141 Recent papers using BioGeoBEARS: scholar.google/scholar?scisbd=2&q=BioGeoBEARS&hl=en&as_sdt=0,43
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