threshState {phytools}R Documentation

Computes value for a threshold character from a liability and thresholds

Description

Primarily to be used internally by ancThresh; can also be used to simulate threshold traits.

Usage

	threshState(x, thresholds)

Arguments

x

liability.

thresholds

a named vector containing the thresholds.

Value

A discrete character value.

Author(s)

Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu

References

Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.

Revell, L. J. (2014) Ancestral character estimation under the threshold model from quantitative genetics. Evolution, bold68, 743-759.

See Also

ancThresh, threshDIC

[Package phytools version 0.4-60 Index]