Requirements
Graduate or postgraduate degree in any Biosciences discipline. Knowledge of multivariate statistics. User level of R. All participants must bring their own personal laptop (Windows, Macintosh, Linux).
Program
What is the basic structure of phylogenetic data?
How to visualize and manipulate phylogenetic data?
What are models of evolution?
What are the assumptions of the different models of evolution?
How are models of evolution utilized?
Assumptions, properties, and applications of the phylogenetic regression.
Testing for grade shifts using the phylogenetic regression.
Using models of evolution to estimate values of ancestral nodes.
Analysis of rates of evolution.
Estimation of rates of evolution.
Testing hypothesis about rates of evolution.