synthetic_traits: Synthetic Phenotypic Traits

synthetic_traitsR Documentation

Synthetic Phenotypic Traits

Description

A set of synthetic manifest traits generated sampled from a Phylogenetic Latent Variable Model (PLVM). Used to illustrate the approach to ancestral reconstruction offered by Variational Inference for the PLVM.

Usage

synthetic_traits

Format

A data frame with 384 observations of 36 variables:

taxon_id

The taxon to which the individual belongs.

ord

An ordinal trait for which K = 4

nom

A nominal trait for which K = 3

con

A scalar-valued continuous trait.

fvt

A function-valued trait lying on the positive real numbers, observed at 32 points registered along the continuum.


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