README.md

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EMPHASIS is an advanced R package designed to perform statistical inference on phylogenetic trees using evolutionary models. By integrating simulations and importance sampling techniques, EMPHASIS offers a powerful toolkit for researchers in evolutionary biology, genetics, and related fields.

Key Features

Installation

To install the latest version of EMPHASIS from GitHub, use the following command in R:

devtools::install_github("franciscorichter/emphasis")

References

For further reading and a deeper understanding of the methodologies and theories behind EMPHASIS, we recommend the following papers:

  1. Richter, F., Baegeman, B., Etienne, R. S., & Wit, E. C. (2020). Introducing a general class of species diversification models for phylogenetic trees. Statistica Neerlandica, 74(3), 261-274. Read the paper

  2. Richter, F., Janzen, T., Hildenbrandt, H., Wit, E. C., & Etienne, R. S. (2021). Detecting phylodiversity-dependent diversification with a general phylogenetic inference framework. bioRxiv. Read the preprint



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